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On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 21:14:11 -0800, Sondheim Fan
<sondheimfan@nowhere.net> wrote:
>On 2017-02-12 15:30:00 +0000, Shazam! said:
>
>> On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 09:50:09 +0000, ErictheHalfaBee <eric@nowhere.yet>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Which bit of MP3 in the group name was difficult for you?
>>
>> Now bee reasonable Eric.
>>
>> M4A file quality is better and file sizes smaller compared to MP3
>> files. M4A files sound better than MP3 files when encoded at the same
>> bit rate.
>>
>> Most audio players can decipher m4a files, so it shouldn't be too much
>> of a problem.
>>
>> I remember a time when quite a few news-groupies became incensed at
>> the use of yEnc encryption or jpegs bigger than 1024 x 768.
>>
>> Progress is like the Borg... resistance is futile. :-)
>>
>> Shazam!
>
>
>You're a bigger man/woman than I am, Shazam! I would have gone straight
>to the, "people like you who carp and criticize about posts because you
>don't like the file format or some other thing are what killed most of
>the other sharing groups out there" speech. :( There used to be very
>active groups for sharing soundtracks and theatre music -until a
>self-proclaimed ".mp3 policeman" started hounding everyone away. To
>include that it was .m4a in the file name/description only invited his
>wrath quicker and louder. When I would block him, he'd change his name
>and start again. I literally had to block him over two dozen times.
>Most of the other regulars simply left, or became lurkers. You're lucky
>to see one or two new posts there a month now...
>
>There aren't that many people out there sharing. To splinter ourselves
>into smaller and smaller groups by file formats isn't going to make
>anything better -It's just going to make less and less material
>available, and make what is there harder to find. If you're grown up
>enough to use a computer to download a file, then you're capable of
>converting that file to another format, if needed. If you can't do
>that, then don't download it! I know some file formats are very hard
>from some systems to deal with, but a polite request for someone who
>can to re-up the file in a different format is usually sufficient.
>
>Sondheim Fan
>
>PS -I know iTunes has its haters out there, but it is a whiz at
>converting file formats quickly and accurately. It's free, too! You
>could use it simply for conversions...
Personally, I can't be doing with m4a because it *won't* play on my
*mp3* player or in my car and so that's why I'd prefer not to see it
it in an MP3 group. If someone's that desperate to post an m4a
version, why not go to another group like a.b.sounds.books?
As for iTunes, I wouldn't let anything from Apple near my system. Ick!
;-)
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