Reply To: How complete is your film music collection?
Interesting in my tests such artifacts were most audible the more complex music is and especially orchestra and especially strings. But that only applied only to lower res MP3s (or AACs) like 128kbps. If they are at 256 or 320kbps I am not sure I think I hear a difference.
On lots of pop music (charts stuff) it all does not matter that much since that often is dynamically “compressed to death” anyway.
I also rip lossless at CD quality, in Apple Lossless since I am on Mac. But that’s basically a FLAC derivate.