Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Doug
On 07/27/2018 03:46 PM, Joe wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:27:39 -0500 David Wright wrote: But one opportunity you ought perhaps to exploit when encoding your CDs (and any other audio sources like youtube etc) for the car or portable players is to compress the dynamic range. Car stereos

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Joe
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:27:39 -0500 David Wright wrote: > > But one opportunity you ought perhaps to exploit when encoding your > CDs (and any other audio sources like youtube etc) for the car or > portable players is to compress the dynamic range. Car stereos can > produce good quality when

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 26 Jul 2018 at 21:55:34 (-0400), Doug wrote: > > On 07/23/2018 03:19 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >Hi, > > > >(i reply to Doug's mail but adopt Dan Ritter's new subject text.) > > > >Doug wrote: > >>I would make some copies of CDs onto a flash drive, if I knew how! > >The act of copying

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > But then I told > myself, "Just be wrong, Curt, completely, utterly, unqualifiedly, and > enjoy it for once!" It is not easy to achieve true perfection in this field. I wrote: > > only the most die-hard audiophiles will complain. Curt wrote: > I guess you need the die-hard

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Doug wrote: >> > > wav may be a lossy format, but >> > > you can get a heck of a lot of CDs on an 8GiB flash drive! > > Curt wrote: >> > wav is lossless, I believe, not lossy, > > Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >> Wav is a container format, which can contain

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-27, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, at 09:00, Curt wrote: > >> wav is lossless, I believe, not lossy, but your tongue (or some digits) >> probably >> slipped. > > Wrong. All right. > Wav is a container format, which can contain compressed or uncompressed > audio. The

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Doug wrote: > > > wav may be a lossy format, but > > > you can get a heck of a lot of CDs on an 8GiB flash drive! Curt wrote: > > wav is lossless, I believe, not lossy, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > Wav is a container format, which can contain compressed or uncompressed > audio. Yes. But in the

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 27 Jul 2018, at 09:00, Curt wrote: > wav is lossless, I believe, not lossy, but your tongue (or some digits) > probably > slipped. Wrong. Wav is a container format, which can contain compressed or uncompressed audio. The compressed stuff may be lossy or not. And... anyone could add

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-27 Thread Curt
On 2018-07-27, Doug wrote: > > Thanx to all for the information. I don't seem to have cdda2wav, but > I had an interesting (!) experience. I used K3b to put one CD on the > flash, but I could not seem to get it to do it again, and all the info for > K3b is 6 years old. I wound up installing

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-26 Thread Doug
On 07/23/2018 03:19 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, (i reply to Doug's mail but adopt Dan Ritter's new subject text.) Doug wrote: I would make some copies of CDs onto a flash drive, if I knew how! The act of copying audio data from CD is usually called "ripping". Program cdda2wav is

Re: Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (i reply to Doug's mail but adopt Dan Ritter's new subject text.) Doug wrote: > I would make some copies of CDs onto a flash drive, if I knew how! The act of copying audio data from CD is usually called "ripping". Program cdda2wav is specialized on that job. I would use my own program

Car Audio USB Jacks

2018-07-23 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 02:08:37PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > On 07/22/2018 04:57 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > This may or may not be off topic, but you folks seem to know something about > CDs, so I'll ask: > My friend has just gotten a Korean car--it's either a Hundai or a Kia, I > don't remember,