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Community Newsletter: Q&A: 10/21/05 Best format for digitizing my CD collection
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Converting mp3 audio to lower bit rate
by Kevwejoe - 10/28/05 1:37 AM In reply to: OK I have an awared winning question by daveboxleyYou can convert your current audio files of 190 bit rate to lower bit rate of up to 96 using Roxio Easy CD DVD Creator 6.0+. Use the audio central menu of this software. Open your audio source file from this menu. select the audio file(s), highlight it(them), then click file. You will see among the available options, convert "audio format". Select this and in the audio format option, select mp3 and take the bit rate you want. You can select as low as 96 bit rate. and then convert.
Rip from Vinyl
by tsonj - 11/1/05 6:38 AM In reply to: 10/21/05 Best format for digitizing my CD collection by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
CD's have built in loss. Quite a bit actually. To those of us 35+ers, go dig out your old LPs, buy a high end turntable and cartridge/stylus (i.e. the needle), and listen. Find out how much CDs have taken away.
I've ripped a 5 of my favorite LPs to .WAV and the sound is amazing. It takes far too long to do an entire collection, but for a few sacred albums it's worth it.
Note to you youngsters: Please go ask your parents what an LP is.
Couldn't agree more
by midfingr - 11/8/05 1:28 PM In reply to: Rip from Vinyl by tsonjYeah we really got 'ripped' when CDs came along. The process used to master LPs is forever lost... well for the most part. I find when listening to vinyl, you get that beautiful analog bass back. Something sorely lacking in CDs.
I too rip LPs to WAV, but for storage, I use the APE format. The loss isn't too noticable and you end up with about half the size. But WAV is the way to go for preserving those priceless LPs.
Online stores are a good point of comparison
by hernanbarraza - 11/18/05 11:55 PM In reply to: 10/21/05 Best format for digitizing my CD collection by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I think a good way to determine what format is right for digitizing your entire CD collection, is to check what the online stores have to offer. Since they sell music that anyone might want to buy and listen (with good quality), you may as well buy a song to test the sound quality of it, and to see which format it was compressed into, whether it was encoded using CBR or VBR, the bitrate, etc.
Most music stores encode the music in WMA format (not iTunes, please have that in mind!), using Windows Media 9 codec, with CBR (constant bitrate), at 128kbps.
Submitted by: Scott Z
by buddywinni - 1/3/06 10:36 AM In reply to: 10/21/05 Best format for digitizing my CD collection by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I would like this message be read by Scott if possible. I am a lifetime registered user of MusicMatchPlus version 10. I know that musicmatch plus uses " VBR & CBR " encoding technoligy & programable variable bitrates. Up till now, MusicMatch10 has & is my best MP3 ripper & converter yet. I would like to have his personal comments on MusicMatch 10. Would greatly appreciate this. Am presently running with WinXP Pro SP2 with over 1 gygabite of ram mem, on a gygabite motherboard with a Pentium 4 at 3.2HZ on a Raptor 74 gygabite HDD. My email:wayne_buddy@videotron.ca Please reply ASAP.
Wayne/Montreal/Canada/Quebec
Ripping the right term here?
by marmotbuddy - 8/16/06 1:36 PM In reply to: 10/21/05 Best format for digitizing my CD collection by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Isn't ripping a graphics term for "Raster Image Processing" - or the conversion of vector graphics into rasters for print media? Or is it more generic now...?
Kinda sounds funny to "rip" audio to me... like drinking rock or eating air... they don't belong together...
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