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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
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You guys still use MP3? Come on, Vorbis and Opus exist.
Please explain how transcoding to ogg would be in any way helpful for a poorly-named untagged MP3 from 1999
I'm an audiophile, you wouldn't get it.
I'm just not sure how transcoding an existing MP3 file to ogg would restore its quality given that the bits are already gone, is all
You just need special ears like mine.
Maybe you're right, I don't get it. Because from where I'm sitting, ears don't have anything to do with it, any loss in quality already happened when the music was encoded as an mp3. You can't magically restore the missing bits by transcoding it to a different format, even if that format is lossless, because the loss already happened.
I can hear the missing bits. I use Monster Cables.