From: Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:12:37PM -0500, Michael Werneke wrote:
> > Two questions:
> >
> > 1. My CD SW rips to .wav's. Can I buy songs in a format (MP3?) that
can
> > be burned to a CD and does it have to be a .wav?
>
> Music can certainly be purchased in mp3 or ogg formats. Both can be
> burned to cd for use in ordinary cd players. Newer units can play mp3
> and/or ogg directly.
>
> Problem with purchasing music in lossy format, is that if you go to
> unencode it back to a .wav for burning to cd, the sound quality will
> still only be as good as the original mp3/ogg.
>
Gabe mentioned the same thing. How real a problem is that? As a
parallel, just for chuckles once I kept resaving a .jpg as a new .jpg.
Ten copies and I couldn't see any difference. It may be lossy, but the
effect doesn't appear to be radical.
A little loss is probably no big deal for me. I have tinitus (Vietnam,
you know ;) and while I love music, I don't have to waste a lot of money
on top-of-the-line speakers, if you know what I mean.
Well, if you think the quality of MP3s now is ok, you're good. Thats what
an MP3 player basicly does- convert to .wav on the fly and stuff the data
to the sound card. The quality loss is when you convert from wav to mp3
originally, not going mp3->wav. If you were to re-encode the wav as an ogg
or mp3 again there would be an additional hit. Personally, I can't hear
enough in the process to care about the wav->mp3 loss, but I'm close to the
exact opposite of an audiophile.
If you use allofmp3, you can buy songs at one of 3 or 4 bitrates. Pick the
one that seems the best quality/money. They chanrge by the MB not the song,
but even at the top quality you're looking at $1.50->2.50 per album.
Gabe
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