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New I'd forgotten your aspect on that.
I generally move on with technology in my own time, but a certain "it gets easier to be better" tends to earmark it.

Case in point: I don't use cassettes any more, except to copy stuff off that I have on cassette. For the equivalent function, I use MiniDisc. Basically I found I was futzing around so much making Really Good cassette recordings whereas with MiniDisc it's a doddle.

Case #2: making decent sounding MP3 files was a trial of repitition. Apart from it being a novelty when I first looked into it, artifact problems et al made it a bit like the cassette problem. :-( A job change meant I could play my own music at work and that's when I discovered Ogg Vorbis. The encoder offers a ridiculously simple interface: "quality". I haven't encoded an MP3 in more than a year.

Wade.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."

New Ogg Vorbis
If I ever sucker myself into the whole hog + postage - re Linux.. I see I'll have to try out an O.V. rendition of something with the full orchestral dynamic range and - hear. My ears can be fooled more easily now, for missing a few chunks of the spectrum - so good-enough will do.

..but I can still smell the glassiness of 'over-compressed' fiddling pretty well.

(And converting all those vinyls is comparable to doing the work of the Linux inculcation.. Twice! urk)

Ashton
New Vorbis ain't just for Linux
Go [link|http://www.vorbis.com/download_win.psp|here].
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Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978|Andrew Grygus]
New Thanks!
I'll risk a few more lines in the &^#$& Registry to give it a whirl. Nice to know that the files can be reused later under Linux and... Apple!
For now, quality 0 is roughly equivalent to 64kbps average, 5 is roughly 160kbps, and 10 gives about 400kbps. Most people seeking very-near-CD-quality audio encode at a quality of 5 or, for lossless stereo coupling, 6. The default setting is quality 3, which at approximately 110kbps gives a smaller filesize and significantly better fidelity than .mp3 compression at 128kbps.
So... I guess I'll try orchestral music at level 6 or more; it's gonna be tough to get a 80 dB range with triangles on through double-bass. MP3 (hearsay) fails that pretty much.

But hearing is believing.


Ashton
New Actually, q3 approximates MP3 @ 160, quality-wise.

"Ah. One of the difficult questions."

     BMG adding copy protection to all its CDs - (admin) - (41)
         An even better one: EMI - (admin) - (4)
             Re: An even better one: EMI - (SpiceWare) - (1)
                 Besides... those people get money for those blanks - (jake123)
             Christian, translation check please? - (drewk) - (1)
                 Sorry about the delay... But yes, it's pretty much exact. -NT - (CRConrad)
         Won't slow the rippers down. - (static) - (15)
             Link for that discussion? - (admin) - (13)
                 It would have been on the mailing list. - (static) - (12)
                     I have been goin... - (folkert) - (10)
                         He might have posted it on SlashDot. - (static) - (9)
                             Gah... - (folkert)
                             What's his /. userid? - (kmself) - (7)
                                 xiphmont ? -NT - (altmann) - (1)
                                     That would be it. -NT - (static)
                                 Dam... - (folkert) - (4)
                                     You're really keen! :-) - (static) - (3)
                                         Duhh... dull as a... - (folkert) - (2)
                                             No, I was being serious. - (static) - (1)
                                                 Oh... so I did,,, - (folkert)
                     Something similar from an interview on April 4, 2000. - (Another Scott)
             Related: Schneier, The Futility of Copy Protection - (kmself)
         Wait until they see what this costs - (tuberculosis) - (18)
             Of course, they'll mis-read the "message". - (static) - (17)
                 Yes, retailers are very important. - (jake123) - (13)
                     I remember Philips saying that, too. - (static) - (12)
                         Hah..!__like the 'Walk-DVD Player' ? [scrap yer Old one !?] -NT - (Ashton) - (11)
                             It gets complicated. - (static) - (10)
                                 And overlaying all the digital permutations, remains.. - (Ashton) - (9)
                                     I'd forgotten your aspect on that. - (static) - (4)
                                         Ogg Vorbis - (Ashton) - (3)
                                             Vorbis ain't just for Linux - (drewk) - (2)
                                                 Thanks! - (Ashton) - (1)
                                                     Actually, q3 approximates MP3 @ 160, quality-wise. -NT - (static)
                                     Vinyls vs 1's and 0's - (tuberculosis) - (3)
                                         Have you seen the Tubes Rock! T? - (SpiceWare)
                                         toobs - (Steve Lowe) - (1)
                                             Beg to differ - (jb4)
                 that wont work in the US - (boxley) - (2)
                     That would require persistence. - (static) - (1)
                         Yo Bryce! - (tuberculosis)
         And this is just the beginning... - (jb4)

I just know what I read in the magazines.
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