�^�sol:
yes, thanks! at 16kbps it only takes up 90kb for 45 sec.,
but it sounds like doo-doo on a ny street. at 32kbps
(180kb), it's sound quality improves to more like doo-doo
on a stick.
to the rest of you:
this FreeRip thing is the cat's meow (he says in his
naivete). listen to sol. it's easy to download and for
someone who can't really spend much time with this - it's
really easy. i've got the MP3 book for dummies, but just
haven't gotten around to crackin' it open, so i suppose
that i now have no excuses when asked whether my work is
online...
aLSO SOL: If you go to the top and click "CD", then go to
"Options", you have a choice of ripping to .wav or MP3
instantly and not having to go *thru* one to the other (but
you probably knew that).
o.k., back to your regularly scheduled program (before it
was so rudely interrupted)...
r[>>>>>
--- Sol Nte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Rod,
>
> >Of course, I
> now have to get out the "MP3 for Dummies" to find out why
> 45 seconds of sound would take up 1.4 MG - maybe because
> of
> 256kbps/44 Hz?)<
>
> The higher the bitrate (i.e. 256kbps) the better the
> sound quality and the
> bigger the file. You can get 2 minutes of music into less
> than 500k with
> some encoders by using very small bitrate (the smallest
> is about 16,
> although I remember Heiko mentioning that his encoder
> would do 8), however
> this music will not be stereo and may deteriorate in
> quality significantly
> from the original, however since many people will listen
> to this music via
> the web on their little plastic PC speakers a certain
> tradeoff between
> quality and filesize/download times can be made. Your
> best bet to encode
> tracks from a CD is to use FreeRip or similar software to
> extract the tracks
> you want to WAV files. Then encode the WAV files as mp3s
> trying different
> bitrates, if you don't like the sound quality you can
> simply delete the mp3
> and encode the WAV file again using different settings,
> however you will
> always have your original high quality sound in the WAV
> file. Hope this
> makes sense. There's a degree of trial and error really
> in getting mp3s that
> sound okay but don't take forever to download.
>
> BTW - Roger, glad that info was helpful, am awaiting the
> chance to download
> Killer Rabbits material.
>
> cheers,
>
> Sol.
>
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