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For archiving purposes what would you recommend? I'm not sure the extra quality is worth the extra storage space required... |
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quality over quantity,..... what I always say |
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hmm I suppose I'm gonna have to buy me a new dedicated mp3 hard drive. 40Gig ain't gonna cut it |
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192kbps there is a big difference in sound quality. but 160 is acceptable. |
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yeah, go 192. |
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192k at least, though 160 is acceptable for some music |
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thing is I'll be using the mp3s on my seperates system so that does it. What's good in hard drives nowadays? |
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heh IMO 200 gig hard drives wouldn't cut it..... there's just sooo much good shit out there |
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and porn....... can't forget porn...... |
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i have 2 80GB seagate barracudas, never had problems |
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don't need it :) |
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i'd go with 160 myself... i don't think there is that much loss in mp3s. |
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and sometimes even CDs have bad or just average sound quality. |
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i encode everything in ~ 230 kbps vbr is that stupid? |
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FLAC! |
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For serious archival purposes mister Dobbin is correct - only a lossless compression like FLAC will cut it. But Lame VBR (--alt-preset standard) encoded files are this " close so that's what I use. I was using Ogg because it's marginally better but my new MP3 CD player can't play them soooo... |
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yeah - when it comes to technical issues, fleety is right about 99.9% of the time. :D |
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i don't care what kbps, as long as it's not below 128 |
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as long as you don't use anything lower, anything should be okay. |
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use variable bitrate. (VBR) |
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:: copies and pastes the standard advice :: The best mp3 encoder is , with the interface. Best encoding options: "--alt-preset standard" for normal music "--alt-preset extreme" for shrill music with lots of high end you want to preserve If you can get away with it though, use , which gives better sounding smaller files in half the time. And to get wav files off CD use which gives you error free files (unless you've sandpapered your CDs). EAC can also encode the files to MP3 using the Lame encoder but I prefer to do it in two steps because I am obsessive compulsive. |
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WHEN HAVE I BEEN WRONG ;-) |
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nlogax .. shes not too special what do ya like about her face that much? |
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that's EXACTLY what I use :) |
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hehe. I think there's another thread about that topic :) |
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Phobes should take my post and put it on an FAQ page so I can stop posting it. It's a valuable community resource because it increases the proportion of well encoded files on SLSK! |
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yeha i cannae find it aanymuure moitee |
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what bitrate should I use in the General tab, as opposed to the VBR tab? Needless to say, I've set it to 320kbps on the VBR tab, but what is an appropriate bitrate for the general rate? any thoughts, fleetmouse? |
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i got an e-mail saying i won an ipod today. it must be a scam orr a trrick orr orr... something, i can't have won, but damn it all looks so tempting, i wanna click that link. |
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foo' |
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yeh, alt preset standard is the way forward |
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yes, 320 vbr |
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Go to the expert tab and check "only use custom options and use: --alt-preset standard for most music or --alt-preset extreme for really trebly noisy music The rest of the encoding options will be ignored. |
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I'll give it a try then. thanky wanky fleety ;) |
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nlogax: your cabbage patch/munchkin avatar is seriously disturbing/scaring me. please consider changing it. thanks XOXOXOXOXO |
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great! :) |
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256 is nice. But most of the music I archive, I hardly ever listen to anyway, they don't justify anything more than 192, and usually 160 is fine. Anything that's dear to me, has to be well over 192 though. |
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You old hoarder - how many gigs of music ya got? I got 55 or thereabouts - gonna need a second 120 gig drive soon! |
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Oh shit, it's embarrasing... many, many, many, many gigs, on many many CD-Rs. Some of which I'll probably never hear more than once, so it's not like I'd ever buy all this shit anyway. To my right is every good track ever made, it seems... I don't know how I can sleep at night! |
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