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It's called..: How I became a music pirate. Basically I agree with this article.
After they manage to actually get the music they bought working a way to get around the petty restrictions that places put on their music is to burn it to CD and then rip it. Although you put it through a second generation of compression\loss that ruins the quality of your purchased music. So you are paying a lot of money and hardly getting your moneys worth on top of the quality you where getting in the first place which isn't so good compared to the alternative. An ironic thing is you can get higher quality songs from illegitimate channels than through legitimate channels.
Rule of thumb for me is if you have to use a lossy format for any kind of media file that whatever it is you are converting should only be put through that process once and only from an original lossless format like an original CD or original uncompressed file. For example when I edit a picture that was a jpeg I always resave my edit to a lossless format like png so that I don't incur any more degradation. For photos I always use a lossless format until it's time to put them on the web which then copies that are jpegs get used for there but I still keep the lossless version.
The only way to make sure you are getting the most out of songs on your computer or for your MP3 player the most legit way is to rip them from CD yourself with high settings. Even then they don't want for you to do that.. and why would they? They make more money forcing you to buy the same songs over and over. They want you to buy low quality files so later on they can incrementally upgrade them and have you buy them all over again.
After they manage to actually get the music they bought working a way to get around the petty restrictions that places put on their music is to burn it to CD and then rip it. Although you put it through a second generation of compression\loss that ruins the quality of your purchased music. So you are paying a lot of money and hardly getting your moneys worth on top of the quality you where getting in the first place which isn't so good compared to the alternative. An ironic thing is you can get higher quality songs from illegitimate channels than through legitimate channels.
Rule of thumb for me is if you have to use a lossy format for any kind of media file that whatever it is you are converting should only be put through that process once and only from an original lossless format like an original CD or original uncompressed file. For example when I edit a picture that was a jpeg I always resave my edit to a lossless format like png so that I don't incur any more degradation. For photos I always use a lossless format until it's time to put them on the web which then copies that are jpegs get used for there but I still keep the lossless version.
The only way to make sure you are getting the most out of songs on your computer or for your MP3 player the most legit way is to rip them from CD yourself with high settings. Even then they don't want for you to do that.. and why would they? They make more money forcing you to buy the same songs over and over. They want you to buy low quality files so later on they can incrementally upgrade them and have you buy them all over again.
