What's really cool now is the VBR MP3. (variable bit
rate) You choose a base level of bitrate and the
encoder will determine the best bitrate for the music
being encoded. For instance, if you think that 128 is
OK for most stuff, but you feel you would like more
quality on the bright sparkley passages, but think
it's too much for the quiet parts, then select 128,
and it will record as high as it needs (within a
sliding scale that you choose in your encoder) For
instance, I was recording some Enya and most of her
stuff is broody and quiet. It doesn't need a high
bitrate, so on the quiet passages, it drops down to
96, but on the bright piano parts of Orinoco Flow, it
encodes at 160 or better! Based on how MP3 works,
there are just parts of music that just don't need to
be there due to the inability of the human ear to
discern them. And it all depends on your level of
tolerance.
The only drawback is that you need a player that
supports VBR, which most new ones should have no
problem handling. your results may vary.
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- Oliver Brose <oliver.brose_at_t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 01:33:35 +0200
> > From: Hagen.Lang_at_t-online.de (Hagen Lang)
> > Subject: [NTLK] Lo-Fi-IPod
> >
> > Hello,
> > being provocative, can someone give me a clue
> what this MP3-stuff is=3D
> > all
> > about?
<big 'ol snip>
> The nice thing about MP3: You can choose the
> bitrate.
>
> I consider myself an audiophile, just for info.
> I use MiniDisc, for about five years now, almost
> exclusively on the go or i=
> n
> the car, and I can recognize the difference between
> MD and CD on my stereo.
> MD supplies me with the convenience I need on the
> go, and the quality is
> decent.
> I hated and denied MP3 for years, as most things you
> got where encoded in
> 128kbit, and that is truely awfull.
> Then I got iTunes. With iTunes I was finally able to
> create MP3s at 360
> (320?)kbit which sound okay, equal or even superior
> to MiniDisc, and to do
> it with ease.
<snip again!>
> Oliver-bat-ear-Brose :)
> --
> - Macs sind f=FCr die, die nicht wissen wollen,
> warum Ihr Rechner funzt.
> - Linux ist f=FCr die, die wissen wollen, warum er
> funzt.
> - DOS ist f=FCr die, die wissen wollen, warum er
> nicht funzt und
> - Windows ist f=FCr die, die nicht wissen wollen,
> warum er nicht funzt.
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