I posted this to the JFW list earlier and just realized that maybe Shannon and Boris had asked for help here, not there. That's what I get for not looking at the headers carefully. This is just a description of settings Kevin recommended to me weeks ago, so if he or anyone else thinks there's something here that could be explained better than I have explained it, please feel free to chime in. Daniel I wrote: Dear Boris, Shannon and anyone else who might wish to understand what Jaws is saying in the CDex settings dialogue:
(Note: F4 will bring this dialogue up without your having to go to the menus.) To make it simple, I'm going to list the settings that a knowledgeable and generous guy named Kevin on the PC-Audio list suggested and explained to me and others recently. These choices have worked very nicely for me, so far as my ears can tell. And as I play a couple of instruments and love music dearly, those are pretty critical ears, so these suggestions ought to work for you, too. The settings you may wish to understand more about if only out of curiosity might be the choices of high and low bit rate, and the choice of variable bit rate (VBR),average bit rate (ABR) be. There's some explanation in the help files, but it's a little confusing at a couple of points. Not the best documentation, even though it's trying to be user friendly, so to speak. Might be better just to ask about these things on the PC-Audio list so someone can explain better. You might also like to look at instructions on the Helpful Hints page of the JFW Lite Web site http://www.jfwlite.com One item there might interest you, which I'll paste in here: Open the settings dialogue with F4 , and control tab to the file name dialogue. Here you can specify the folder where you want to put wav files to be compressed and also the folder where you want tracks to be stored after For example (Daniel speaking again), I have this set so that c:\my music is the destination folder. So when CDex rips an album, as I think I explained in an earlier message, here's the pathto where the new files end up: C:\my music\artist name\album title Okay, now here are the settings I use: thread priority above normal LAME encoder, first in list leave box unchecked so ripped .wav file will be deleted version MPEG I (first in list) bit rate minimum 128 bit rate maximum 320 J-stereo radio button, check leave the following four checkboxes unchecked quality level high (3 of 13) on-the-fly encoding unchecked (in on-the-fly encoding, the tracks are ripped directly to the compressed format. While this is faster, it can allow errors, whereas the method of making an intermediate .wav file from which to create the compressed file, then deleting it, can result in more accurate results.) means vbr method: default vbr quality zero (highest) Leave the rest of the default settings undisturbed. tab to OK and press Enter to save the settings. Hope this helps, Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.11/26 - Release Date: 6/22/2005 -- To post a message to the list, send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: http://www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.11/26 - Release Date: 6/22/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.7.11/26 - Release Date: 6/22/2005 _______________________________________________ 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]
