Thanks for the details Mr O
I've been using dBPowerAMP as a ripper for the last couple of years.
The best of the freeware offerings, for Windows, from tucows at the
time. It was pretty good, then the designer ran into copyright issues
for offering a free MP3 player and the new version, of the Player,
although offering more, was problematic. The ripper is still good, but
I need to get off windows.
I've been encoding VBR, 48 KHz, 500 Kbps, Ogg's. I've been reminded, by
our discussion, that a one file fits all is not possible and now it
seems a one file type is not possible. I am probably going to go back
to shaving my files to 128 Kbps and keeping the DVD's as archive.
Thereby allowing me to maintain two file type collections in the same
amount of disk space.
So I guess I'm in the market for a MP3 player that uses a rechargeable
battery and can load from Linux would be nice. I may revisit the iPod
Nano, but my gut is telling me that the price is high due to popularity
that is driven by fashion more then function. I can do without fashion.
I am starting to hit the wall on windows: I'm using Me and I refuse to
buy/run XP and I don't own a Mac. So I will look into GRIP. What about
these app's that come with FC4: like Sound Juicer?
Brian
Mr O wrote:
CBR = Constant Bit Rate, VBR = Variable Bit Rate. When a file is
CBR it doesn't matter how much content is in part of the stream,
the bit rate is constant. With VBR the rate varies by what bit
rate you would like to encode up to. So, a 192kbps VBR will
never go over 192k but will drop below 100k if there isn't much
content in the stream (vocals, instruments, etc.) Thus, you have
the capability to save space while not sacrificing sound
quality. OGG and MP3 both support VBR. Playback of VBR is
another issue. Personally I encode VBR with LAME 3.97b2 (best
rated version of LAME thus far) with quality set to "0" which
means up to 320k. At that point you'll have a hard time telling
the difference between the MP3 and the CD. Back to playback
though, many portables support VBR but not over a certain point.
It's very taxing on the system.
XMMS and Winamp are great because they show you the current
bitrate during playback so you can watch the numbers jump. FWIW,
on Linux I prefer GRIP and on Windows I prefer AudioGrabber.
Both can utilize LAME and do a great job ripping and encoding.
Banshee was mentioned as an iTunes equivalent before but
encoding with custom settings can't be accessed via the GUI.
Cowbell seems alright for editing tags and trying to find album
art.
That be all,
Mr O.
--- Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
CBR-MP3 seems to relate to iRiver, is that what you have? I
read some
mixed reviews on that flash memory player, but they all have
some
drawbacks. I guess I am just inquiring about other's
experience. I
just want an inexpensive, flash player, that's easy to work
with Linux:
FC4, FC5, or Ubuntu and runs on rechargeable batteries.
About file size...when I was playing songs on the computer 128
kbps was
fine for me and the Jornada (Windows Media Player) I used,
shrunk them
even smaller. I play them through $10 ear buds so I imagine
96 kbps
would be fine. The software for this Jornada 540 series looks
like it
was a garage job, 128 MB gets about 2 CDs, and it takes
forever to load
(1.5 hrs.)
Let me know what you like, I need a solution, I'm tired of
listening to
the radio!
Brian
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