more from the 'Stimpy school' of uk.rec.audio-ism:


"Jim H" wrote in message
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I guess if you want to share, you have to go with the masses ;-)
For better or worse, MP3 has a *huge* amount of momentum - look at
the comparative volume of MP3's vs. Ogg on Kazaa

But who uses kazaa anymore?

Mwa ha ha ha!! 4,250,000 people are logged onto Kazaa as I type this!

I'd take those figures with a *big* pinch of salt. How can a supernode know
the total users on a decentralised network? In kazaa people who logged off
some time ago tend to remain counted and those with flaky 'free'
connections + dynamic IP can be counted several times.

Besides, how many people use a network isn't important to file avaliablity
if search facilities do not scale sufficiently to allow them to be reached.
How many of the 4million computers do you think your search queries?
Possibly less than a smaller, but better organised p2p network.

I really wouldn't recomend kazaa. The files are often fake or corrupt, with
no serious attempt at maintaining file integrety, there is nothing to guard
your privicy, there is no real hashing, it has disproportionaly many 56k
users and so is generally slow, the search facilities are inappropiate for
a network of it's size and it's users tend to be technically naieve.

With mp3, maybe, but mp3 is getting on 13 years old now, and at 320k
it's really outside the original design. You can't keep throwing
high, out of spec bitrate at an old format it and expect the quality
to scale nicely. I do not believe there to be audiable difference
between an r3mix lame rip (vbr,~180) and a 320 cbr one.

So, in reality, you don't download a lot - i.a. more than 4 or 5
complete CDs each day, then?

I don't understand the question. Are you acusing me of piracy, or of not
pirating enough? I'll prob download 0.01 full music albums per day, but use
BitTorrent as an ftp replacement. I'd say at least a gig a week, often
maxing out a 2meg line.

What does that have to do with mp3 bitrates? I have many ogg/mp3 files from
my own cds.

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