Michael, Again personally I would always want my mp3s to be a couple of grades better than the outbound stream.
>From what I have heard if you broadcast a 64kb file at 64kb rate to the world the quality you want to achieve just is not there. Step up the source file to 96 and broadcast at 64 it is perfectly fine. Quality clarity... all in good proportion. Having a file at 196 and broadcasting at 64 is not a problem. The file is to a degree future proof should you ever get to the point of higher quality broadcasting. With regards to radio edits and album edits. I would say the radio edit will generally be shorter and depending on the subject matter the album edit could contain profanity or inappropriate references in the song that would be frowned upon on air. A couple of examples would be : James Blunt - Beautiful : Lily Allen - Smile : The Streets - Dry your Eyes These are but a few..... the vein runs a lot deeper :) Hope this helps Richard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Hughes Sent: 03 October 2007 12:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [General-discussion] Bitrates If you are only broadcasting at 64k, does ripping at 192 or even 320k affect anything other than increase your disc usage? Is there a benefit at all to ripping at a higher bitrate than what you are broadcasting at? All I am trying to do is get the best sound for what I can affort and my equipment. I am just having a constant problem with the NEW stuff. Does anyone know what exactly the difference is between a (Radio Edit) and (Album Version)? My old ears can't tell. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Rudd" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 6:05 AM Subject: RE: [General-discussion] Bitrates >I personally prefer to go for the 196 level even though I am only > broadcasting at 96Kbs. > > The better the quality of your MP3's will only have bearing on the amount > of > hard drive spaces it consumes. In this day and ages that does not really > matter. > > What you will achieve from this is the sound knowledge that should you > ever > get to a point where you want to broadcast at 128Kbps then you know your > mp3 > quality will be more than enough. The best analogy for this is in > graphics. > Big picture to small always looks good. Small to big.... does not work > very > well at all. > > I hope this has been of some help. > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Michael Hughes > Sent: 03 October 2007 01:39 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [General-discussion] Bitrates > > If you guys are using MP3Pro, 64k, 44.1 settings for your encoder, what do > you rip your music at? > > _______________________________________________ > General-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.spacialaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/general-discussion > > TO unsubscribe to this list, simply send a blank email to > [email protected] > > with the subject > 'unsubscribe' > > > __________ NOD32 2568 (20071003) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > > _______________________________________________ > General-discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.spacialaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/general-discussion > > TO unsubscribe to this list, simply send a blank email to > [email protected] > > with the subject > 'unsubscribe' > _______________________________________________ General-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.spacialaudio.com/mailman/listinfo/general-discussion TO unsubscribe to this list, simply send a blank email to [email protected] with the subject 'unsubscribe' __________ NOD32 2568 (20071003) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
