To be fair to him, he's not like this on some of his other videos. When he's being instructional, he's nicely neutral and informative. And he's always articulate and knows how to get a point across in a simple way.
I just use whatever I happen to be wearing !
Back in the early 2000s, I worked for a company and the people all had bootleg CDs. A guy offers me a copy of his bootleg MP3 Bee Gees Greatest Hits. I take a listen and it's the lowest quality MP3. It sounded like it was in a tunnel with tons of reverb and kick back. It sure as hell didn't sound like the Bee Gee's greatest hits. When I told him about it, he denied it sounding bad, and that's just the way the songs sounded. The Bee Gees didn't have that kind of slapback echo on everything.
AIFF is becoming better supported. Still on older devices, might be a PITA to get to play. But for a very long time (at least the last 10 years), wav files has not been a problem.
So some guy does a crappy job converting some files by using low quality MP3 and it's MP3's fault? That's like saying that all hamburgers are bad because you got a crappy one at a dirty diner using crappy meat!
That's pretty much what I've often found.
Because I was kind of excited at finding some rare albums that had acquired 'legendary' status at 64K, I was tolerant {read: stupid} back in 2007. But everything sounded like it was recorded in a baked bean can. They were horrible. I reached the point where I'd rather not have the legendary music I wanted than have it at 64Kbps and I chucked them. Still haven't found them but like the fox with the sour grapes, I'm not really bothered. Music at 64Kbps is like being made to snog with a family of foxes. Deep tongues and all !
'Lousy' is being polite, kind and diplomatic all in one. Encoding 64kbps should be a jailable offence, complete with hard labour and lumpy gruel. And a rat-infested cell. And regular beatings from a cell warden of dubious intent.
I remember back in 2007 when I first downloaded deleted albums on the internet. I found a site called Heavenly Grooves that each week posted 8 or 9 obscure and out-of-print albums from Christian Rock's early days, anything from 1964 to 1979. It was a great site and the first time I found it, I remember the site proprietor had a post where he said anyone that encoded at less than 128KbPS needed their ears tested or words to that effect.
How do you do a shitty job of coverting files to MP3? How is that even possible?
I think you have to remember when MP3s came out. Internet connections were not that high, 56K modems were the high tech of the day, you could stream them, and storage was at a premium.
