I’m a little bit Darwin a little bit Gumball

Okay fair point, but if you rip at 44.1 kHz and 16 bit audio is it not the same file?

Edit: and either way, wouldn’t it still be lossless.

Ignore the burning part for a moment, you’re telling me a .wav file is lower quality than listening on the CD?

It’s a lossless file type.

Edit: if I’m wrong can you explain how?

We can definitely argue this. A .wav (or a .flac) rip of a track is literally a bit for bit copy, indistinguishable. Look up lossless vs. lossy encoding.

As for vinyl, that’s more up to taste. The mastering process can be different for a vinyl pressing as you need to worry about the tracking of the needle. That may be what you like.

She’s written books too!

That’s not the case. We can copy a music CD in a lossless way, losing no information.

Burning low bitrate mp3s will obviously be worse.

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The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people’s grammar. It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I’d normally be left feeling angry and disillusioned with the world.

For example, when I read the sentence “I care about this alot,” this is what I imagine: