Re: MP3 incoders?
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Why bother compressing music at all? I can easily have over a thousand Gigabytes of storage in my computer with just a stop at Be(a)st Buy for some new drives. I could store every CD I ever wanted in that much space. I'm thinking it's time to abandon all "lossy" encoders. In fact, I have.
Death to MP3!
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I'm with TitaniumMan... or use FLAC - fully lossless (mathematical) 2:1 compression.
We wank on here about the a 2dB dip on a frequency response chart, then compress the hell out of sources? That's more than a little backwards, no?
Eventually the iPuds ( Red vs Blue at Sundance joke there) and Rios and other portables will catch up with insanely high storage capacities.
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Ogg Vorbis files are relatively transparent - I'd say a -q6 file would be transparent on most music even on M60s and a good sub. One of the reasons it's still widely used is because it's much easier to transfer a sub 100 MB album than a 450 MB album online.
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Thanks for the input guys.
I'll be downloading LAME for Mac later today and might need some tech help.
kcarlile I hope you're around.
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Never set up LAME; I use AAC and I am apparently not discriminating... but I'll try and give you help!
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I intially used AAC, but found no improvement over MP3, and the AAC seemed to take a little longer. I might go back and explore that option again and listen a little more closely.
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Don't know... I rip to AAC at 160 or 192, but I generally can't tell the difference. You could also do ALE, which results in a 2x size reduction from the original music file and supposed to be lossless. I don't think it will play in anything but iTunes or a full size or mini iPod (ie, no shuffles).
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Let me know what you end up w/. My new Mac Mini will be arriving in a few days and I'll busy w/ that new toy. Now I have to network that to my Windows XP home machine. Hopefully, that won't be too hard...
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Let me know if you have any issues. It's pretty easy, though.
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