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A huge pop-country star back in the day. His million-selling hit 'Honey' (released in 1968) was one of the few singles to reach #1 on Billboard's country chart as well as the Hot 100 chart. His real claim to fame, though, and the reason I'm downloading this, is for the track 'Everybody's Talkin', which got tons of radio play back in the early 70s. When you have a headache or a hangover and Motörhead is just too much. 😅 Thanks, djdezzie. 🥂 |
I had a feeling a few people would appreciate this as there really isn't very much of Bobby on the net. I'm really pleased you downloaded it kentk9 and in FLAC no less! Unfortunately MP3 is still more popular but with the price and size of hard drives nowadays I would have thought music lovers would be putting together a lossless music collection to enjoy, I wonder why not? I appreciate mp3 can play on pretty much any device so why not have lossless at home and lossy mp3 for all your other devices? You should have enough room for both. I have four WD Elements 14 TB hard drives, one for movies, one for tv series, one for mp3 and one for FLAC (the mp3 collection is from my dj'ing years and kept for nostaligic reasons). The mp3 drive has loads of tracks on it I've yet to find in FLAC. I paid £200 each for them on amazon, down from £250 and bought one every 3 months until I had four. They get replaced every 5 years as I'd be gutted to lose all my music, most of them would be impossible to replace.! All the best mate. |
Howdy djdezzie! Always appreciate your shares - and your thoughts on various topics, including the one above regarding FLAC. My gut feeling is that people ARE making the switch to FLAC, but it's happening slowly. Here's why - imho. You're right. Prices of portable hard-drives are coming down. And computer & cellphone makers ARE beginning to increase the amount of memory they build into their products, but that is happening slowly too. In concrete terms: an MP3 recorded at 320Kbps can be as much as ten times smaller than the same track in 24bit hi-res FLAC. That's a significant difference, especially if you're still listening to your tunes on a cellphone with 64 GB of built-in memory. Which means you actually have 50 GB or less of actual memory, since cellphone makers notoriously load their cellphones with crap and bloatware. And in the new age of personal mobility, I think most people these days listen to their music mainly on-the-go, with their cellphones, rather than sitting at home. I could be wrong about that, but if I'm right, file size is the major reason for the slow switch to FLAC, rather than issues with music player compatibility. My FLAC collection stands at just over 600 GB at the moment. To get those tracks onto a cellphone, I'd need to buy one with 1 TB of memory - which I'm planning to do on my next upgrade - but 1 TB cellphones aren't cheap. As for dividing one's collection between FLAC for home stereos - and MP3s for other devices, you make a really good point, but even if people do that, there are still two issues slowing the transition to FLAC. First, many people are of the opinion that the quality advantage of FLAC is hard to distinguish from MP3. i.e., if I can't hear a difference in quality, why should I pay for more storage, and then have to lug around - and plug in - an external drive? And second, with portable hard-drives, people need to educate themselves about things like brand advantage, the hard-drive vs. SSD question (solid state drive) and also understand read and write speeds. It's a lot of info for the casual music lover to digest. And as you know, not all portable drives are equal. For die-hard music fans who want the best, FLAC is the obvious choice, for sure, but a combination of the issues above is putting the brakes on universal acceptance of FLAC. That's my take on it. Would love to hear what others think. |