On Saturday 08 May 2004 03:03 pm, Greg Meyer wrote:
> > ->I'll give a prize to the first poster that can recognize
> > the song I used by ->listening to this. �I did compress it
> > again to save bandwidth, but it won't ->change your
> > impressssion about how much of a track is lost when it is
> > ->compressed, even at a high quality like I did here. ->
> > ->http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/diff_q6.ogg
> >
> > Queen..."Crazy Little Thing Called Love"...or something like
> > that?
>
> We have a winner. �I said you'd get a prize, but I lied :-p
>
> It is really astounding to me that one can figure out the song
> from listening to the difference between the original and the
> compressed version.
Hell, I'm still tryin to figure out what y'all are talkin
about ;) Not to hijack, but I will since the original query
seems to be satisfied ;)
I'm still stuck in mp3. I've got a paid news server (giganews).
Just about any artist and their albums are available, anytime,
but only as mp3's. Most are 160 or higher encodes, mostly 192 or
variable (up to 256). I've got audio cd's floatin out my ears ;)
In the dir where the mp3's are I run 'mp3_check -ssf
*.mp3' (outputs only errors if there are any that can't be
fixed). Usin Xmms diskwriter I convert to wav's. Then several
runs of 'normalize -m *.wav' to equalize the files (sound volume
levels). I run that command till it reports "already normalized,
not adjusting". Usually 3 times. Burn to CDr with 'bacd'
Resulting audio cd's are better than store bought. Not just my
ear either, people I make cd's for tell me the same. Particularly
effective for poor original recordings (typically 40's, 50's,
60's stuff) and vinyl rips. Even new releases (store bought),
the copies sound much better. A simple 'cpaudiocd' does it all.
Much better than the fallacy of tryin to burn encoded files (mp3,
ogg) directly to audio cd's. Specially with a GUI.
...............
alias cpaudiocd='ripacd && normall && bacd &&
rm -f /home/tom/wav/*
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alias ripacd='cdparanoia -vB 1- /home/tom/wav/'
alias normall='normalize -m /home/tom/wav/*'
alias bacd='cdrecord -v -eject driveropts=burnfree speed=32
dev=1,0,0 -sao -pad -audio /home/tom/wav/*.wav'
Note: I've found express path to be better than ~/wav/, when
used in aliases.
I've needed -sao to copy audio CD's that are close to the 80
min limit. I reckon it defeats -pad... but what'a heck, it works
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
Proud to be an American
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