>> may be a player, or plug_ins for some players but you lose the freedom
>> that exists in mp3 being a "standard". for me it would mean that i
>> couldn't use them in my empeg, heh. besides, i got like 70gb+ of mp3s
>> right now. don't want to reencode things until i have to (converting
>> everything to vbr is taking me long enough).
>>
>> steve
>how are you converting to vbr, can you do this without having to
>reencode, or if not, how do reencode without any quality loss?
naw, reripping EVERYTHING. =( so far i've only gotten through like 20gb worth (been lazy) but i think i'm going to have to bring up yet a third mp3 server... either that or start saving up for a "real" one, like a 120+gb lvd array. currently these 35 gb raid's i'm setting up just don't hold enough. =( and yeah i need scsi cuz i pull this stuff from everywhere actively (but legitimately... long story). i like music a lot, heh. just waiting for the new house so i can setup all the mp3 terminals...
sorry but don't know of any lossless conversion from cbr to vbr yet... wish i did. all it could do is strip below the current though, you couldn't increase tonal quality... but i wouldn't mind since i was rtipping everything at 256k cbr to begin with (even though I VBR at 32-320), heh.
steve
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