Hardware music players (was: Moving files)

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 01:53:10PM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:34:22 EST
> Mark Komarinski said:
> 
> >I'm not *that* anal about my music.  I just want to hear it.
> 
> MP3s are fine for stuff ripped from CD, but if you've got a 
> soundboard recording of a live show that's been converted to mp3 from 
> wav, you've lost a lot data in that, and the resultant file sounds 
> like crap compared to the original.
> 
> This is the reason so many people trading live show recordings use 
> SHN format (or the new FRAC), it's lossless compression.
> 
> But for ripping your CDs to a digital format, mp3 is fine.

I think the problems show up depending on the quality of the WAV file
you create.  A 44.1khz gives you a range to 22.05khz whereas a 48khz
DVD gives a higher range (24khz).

It all comes back to the quality of the source you're working with.
If you record a WAV file at 22khz, it doesn't matter if you encode
it at 320kbps, it will still suck.  I've moved records to CD to MP3
with little (audible) quality loss.

Yes, transcoding will lose some of your quality.  The question is, how
much are you willing to lose and how much will you notice?

-Mark
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