-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you're really worried about quality and you're not particularly concerned about disc space (perhaps you'd rather copy to DVD'S for your record collection rather than CD'S) then you may consider a lossless compression format such as FLAC. A tipical 600 meg wave file will be compressed to 300 or 400 meg without any loss in quality, you can then decode the Flac file back to a wave file if you wish (again! with no loss in quality), this cannot be said for MP3, the more you convert or decode and re-encode your MP3 files then the more noticable the quality loss will be.
A plug-in for Winamp is available to allow it to play Flac files. Many rippers will handle Flac files including Exact Audio Copy, Easy CD DA Extractor etc. Nero will also handle Flac files, EAC cue sheets etc. Allot of the portable players around (particularly those which allow firmware upgrading and direct programming through LINUX support the FLAC format. So (I guess my point is in summarising (if you can) leave MP3, OGG etc behind. If you're going to use MP3 then try the new LAME VBR settings, takes a while to compress but the results are outstanding! as far as MP3 goes, you'll get small files with great sound as LAME encodes each frame of each track according to the best bit-rate available for that frame rather than doing all the track at a set bit rate. At 11:31 AM 27/08/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Hello all, >I am copying my vinyl records to be put on a CD. Understanding that the >quality of the record means much, the following question still pertains to >quality. >Which format has the better recording quality..mp3 or wav? >If I recorded in .wav and then converted that .wav file to .mp3 would the >quality change? >I guess what I am asking, which format sounds better in the finished >product? >Thanks, >Morey > > > > >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 Comment: Dane Trethowan, a client of TFT-BBS run by Gordon Smith iQA/AwUBQS9kQSlBPqY64aUBEQKPVACeOBFlfDdmco3ZtK39W2eM2uvkZbsAn0BN Yky0jhzDWZB6wln+Y54d8NId =rxnK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
