Quote Originally Posted by Antinoise
oh. and to finish my rant... As long as records are 10+ bucks .. There is no denying by anyone that downloading illegal tracks into final scratch is not tempting. However.. come the day when there can be a full catalog paid site of downloadable tracks encoded direct from the master then the underground sites will fade (never completely). Complete catalogues... no searching, no worrying about quality... HELL YA! Half the shit on any P2P sites I've ever checked out is crap quality recorded from someone’s soundblaster off of scratchy vinyl anyway...

"LONG LIVE LEGAL ONE (or 2) BUCK QUALITY DOWNLOADS!!!''
whats the problem with recording on a soundblaster ??? a A/D converter is one of the most simplitic thing on earth (its just sampling analog into digital) and if i agree the D/A converters are bad ona low price soundcard , its only related to the ability to play the music and not record it !!

by the way a pro soundcard will enable you to have a higher bitrate & sampling frequency, but its totally pointless since you use a compression wthat loses data (like the mp3).

so beleive me, ripping recods with a SB is the same than ripping with a pro card !