[Trevor]

On 1/03/2017 1:09 AM, John Williamson wrote:
On 28/02/2017 12:40, Mike Rivers wrote:
On 2/27/2017 11:33 PM, Trevor wrote:
geoff (or maybe it was Nil) wrote
Another factor is that some popular music programs like Apple iTunes
and Windows Media Player create low-quality files by default. You can
change that, but I'm sure most people don't know how or care.

Disagree. Most people who could be bothered to encode their own files,
rather than simply download someone else's, know what they are doing.

Again, we have the "most people" argument. While I haven't taken a world
wide poll to prove it, I firmly believe that most people don't encode
their own files. That's too much bother, both to obtain an unencoded
source, and then figure out how to encode it and what to do with it.
"Most people" just let iTunes take care of that business. Really.

For the best of both, buy a CD from Amazon and they let you download a
320kbps MP3 file of it from their website.

And then there were a few CD's that added compressed digital files on
the CD as a data track. Not sure if anyone is still doing that?

Trevor.