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almost every song i downloaded was damaged. i know there are some programs out ther, but do they really work. where can i get them. |
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your the fixer, aint you supposed to know these things?!? |
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its a rethoric question i fix broken things, no mp3 |
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how do you mean "broken" mp3's? |
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No, whether it's broken sound quality or bad mp3 structure(CRC error or whatnot). Well, there's a few specific errors that can usually be fixed, like bad Xing VBR frames, but those aren't common. I hope someone can prove me wrong though, as I have a couple of these myself ... |
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important public service message MP3 compression the way it is usually done is ass for electronic music. I just got loop-finding-jazz-records on CD after having the 192k MP3s for a while and the difference is astonishing - it's like hearing the music for the first time. I guess if more people used it would not offend the ear so. |
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glad you noticed mp3's sound like shit. sorry to say that a lot of people don't notice the difference... |
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A lot of people listen to them on crappy headphones with computer fans blowing in the background. No wonder ... fleetmouse, the --r3mix LAME encoder preset is essentially obsolete, people should probably start using --alt-preset standard as a replacement or --alt-preset cbr 192 (or higher) if you have to have CBR for whatever reason. |
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i use blade to make my mp3's, suits me fine. |
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Consider using LAME, Bladeenc has quite a few bugs, especially at 128 KBps. The author has stopped working on it as well, not a great sign of support. |
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Alot of people dont have a decent set of speakers to notice any difference in MP3 bitrates.. |
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Yep, LAME is my choice of MP3 encoding! |
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yea, the ripper i use has lame too, i've used it but i generally use blade. i don't really make mp3's @ 128, i make 'em at 192 unless the source files are in mono or low stereo quality. |
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I rip all my new music into mp3pro format and at 100% vbr. The average bitrate is 128kps and far exceeds that of a normal mp3 of that bitrate... |
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When I heard BOC's 'Amo Bishop Roden' on CD for the first time, it was like a new track. The heavy bass had completely dissapeared in my mp3. -P |
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Inverted Whale, tell me more about alt-preset standard, the man page isn't especially descriptive! Are extreme and insane better than standard in terms of sound quality? |
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Ah. Nevermind. I'm an idjit. |
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Maybe the mp3 is cooked. Try on the file and see if it fixes it... |
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Just wanted to stress that loop-finding-jazz-records is un-fucking-believably good. What a great disk. Like, half of the music must have been seen as noise by the mp3 encoder and thrown out. It plays kinda like a cross between Pole and Oval, but far more musically satisfying than either. It has Pole's dubby echoes and Oval's bittersweet snatches of stolen melody, arranged less haphazardly. More craft. Lots of clever detail at the threshold of audibility, sounds like fabric swishing (which is probably samples of needles playing in "empty" grooves), eensy weensy little pops and clusters of static buffed and placed with as much loving detail as a Squarepusher turnaround. |
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You've already figured this out, but extreme and insane are both better quality than standard. I can only hear the difference between standard and extreme on about a half dozen tracks (like autechre - second bad vilbel) so I always use standard since it's a good bit smaller. insane is probably the best quality you'll get out of a standard mp3, but the filesize is huge. If you're curious about this sort of stuff, the LAME developers hang out on audio-illumination.org/forums/ |
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i find a huge difference between mp3 and vinyl. the commpression in mp3s ruin everything in my opinion. try downloading some autechre you have on vinyl allready. i just sounds like shit (the mp3) and all the higher frequencies sound distorted and squechy and the sort |
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"I can only hear the difference between standard and extreme on about a half dozen tracks (like autechre - second bad vilbel) Then that's what I'll use as a test, that and maybe some Chiastic. Does standard use the ~19kHz cutoff like Lame? |
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Yes, the --alt-preset standard lowpass is 19kHz. extreme is 19500 Hz and insane is 20500 Hz. |
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