[tomhr]

Some of the tracks I've bought have come with baud rates even higher than the advertised 192 kbps. And yet I was still charged only fifteen cents. Kewl!

On the other hand, I've downloaded tracks that had hiss, or popping noise, or distortion. After puzzling over this, I've come up with three possible explanations for this --

1) Lavamus sometimes is creating MP3 files from vinyl, and isn't telling us.

2) Lavamus sometimes is making MP3 files from CDs that were bootlegged from vinyl, and isn't telling us that they know this or suspect this.

3) Converting a CD song to an MP3 file involves lots of real-time technical decisions, and some of the Lavamus "rippers" are badly trained.

I still recommend Lavamus. At their best, a track from Lavamus is better than the same track from MP3Sparks. On the other hand, Sparks gives you no unpleasant surprises, and Lavamus does.

[quetzalcoatl]

Originally Posted by tomhr

On the other hand, I've downloaded tracks that had hiss, or popping noise, or distortion. After puzzling over this, I've come up with three possible explanations for this --

1) Lavamus sometimes is creating MP3 files from vinyl, and isn't telling us.

2) Lavamus sometimes is making MP3 files from CDs that were bootlegged from vinyl, and isn't telling us that they know this or suspect this.

3) Converting a CD song to an MP3 file involves lots of real-time technical decisions, and some of the Lavamus "rippers" are badly trained.

You are being extra ordinarily naive, when it comes to these Russian/Ukrainian online music stores, Tom, IF you really believe Lavamus do ANY of your above three stated things themselves


P.S. No real ridicule intended

[tomhr]

Originally Posted by quetzalcoatl

You are being extra ordinarily naive, when it comes to these Russian/Ukrainian online music stores, Tom, IF you really believe Lavamus do ANY of your above three stated things themselves


P.S. No real ridicule intended

What are you saying? That I imagined all the noise and crap I've heard through my headphones? Or are you mocking me for not expecting that if I pay only fifteen cents for a song, I'm going to get crap?

If I were willing to settle for crap, I'd buy DRM'd, RIAA-spywared one-dollar songs sold in the USA, so that I could sleep soundly, knowing that my money was going to hard-working Rolexed record-company executives.

[viracocha]

Originally Posted by tomhr

What are you saying? That I imagined all the noise and crap I've heard through my headphones? Or are you mocking me for not expecting that if I pay only fifteen cents for a song, I'm going to get crap?

If I were willing to settle for crap, I'd buy DRM'd, RIAA-spywared one-dollar songs sold in the USA, so that I could sleep soundly, knowing that my money was going to hard-working Rolexed record-company executives.

Hi Tom

I'm fairly sure that my friend quetzalcoatl was mocking you a bit for believing (or pretend to believe) that Lavamus have their own staff of employees actually ripping CD's and vinyl into MP3's

You DO know where they get the most of this stuff from, don't you?

[acenason]

where do they get it from?

[viracocha]

Originally Posted by acenason

where do they get it from?

This is a trick question - isn't it?

[Kaeli]

Originally Posted by viracocha

This is a trick question - isn't it?

The stork brings it, right ??

[viracocha]

Originally Posted by Kaeli

The stork brings it, right ??

Something like that

[vikulenka]

Originally Posted by viracocha

Something like that

Then where do babies come from?

[Kaeli]

xxxxx to xxxxx.... I mean p2p