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swayinOtis

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Don't you hate it when you download some high bitrate MP3s, some of them you had to hunt down for a long time, only to find out they have pops and cracks in them?

Why encode a file at 256k only to leave in some friggin' pops?

When you rip mp3s, at least listen to them before you put them up for download. Some of us don't care for pops and cracks.
 
PliotronX

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You'd think these people would at least listen to the material they're taking the time to rip and encode. It is also suck when someone decides to re-encode a 96Kbps file to 256Kbps thinking it will increase the quality.
 
TallBill

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h;eh.. the worst is when you get a file thats cutoff towards the end... that reason alone is why i moved away from morpheus and on to audiogalaxy
btw, i rip my music to file using wma at 160 kb w/ media player 8...
 
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mithrandir2001

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And stay away from high bitrate encoding anyway, use VBR!

I've downloaded a few 256kbps files only to find out later they were encoded in Xing (ack, split, gag, puke). At least the CD-ROM hardware is catching up with exact audio extraction because fewer and fewer MP3s seem to pop and crackle. Back in the day, half of the files you downloaded were mired with pops.

I rename most of the files I download so that everything is consistent:

Artist - Album Title - Track Number - Track Name.mp3
 
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morkinva

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Just as bad is if the rip isn't normalized (ripped at too high a level) and playing it sounds all distorted on my lame speakers
 
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swayinOtis

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<< I download 320k whenever possable. :D Of course I can only find 320k mp3s on WinMX........... >>



i go for 256 or 320 if i am going to burn them.

as for VBR, i sure can't find many VBR encoded files.

to the tards who say "stop your complaining, it's free" you're obviously some of the dingalings responsible for these things. being "free" doesn't mean it should suck. your personal standards may suck, but most of us don't have the same lowered standards.
 
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WhoDeeny

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How is it possible that a MP3 can be named as a Rob Zombie tune, but then turns out to be some Britany Spears sh!t!? Damn that's annoying
 
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I hate it when people record something directly off the radio, then encode it at like 192kps, special...
 
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swayinOtis

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i see a lot of mp3s on bearshare that are 96k or less. what kind of a dork would listen to that? they must be foreigners in a 3rd world country. lol

 
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Nemesis77

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I have recenty been more and more tempted tovard .ogg audio. Primarily because Konqueror (KDE's filemanager/webbrowser) can automatically rip songs from CD and encode them to .ogg files. All you need to do is to pop in the CD, and copy the files to HD, all done. It also fetches the names of the artist and the song from the net so you don't have to spend any time renaming the files. It's the easiest encoding I have seen so far!

The main reason why I'm still a bit reserved toward .ogg is support. I'm planning to get a mp3-player sometime (portable and to my future car), and it's not yet 100% sure that .ogg is supported on those. It should be, it's 100% patent and royalty-free (unlike mp3), and it's quality is just as good when compared to mp3.
 
TallBill

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no, im not an mp3 enthusiest... i do like listening to music tho.. and i cant tell a difference between formats.. so i will use whats easiest for me to rip
 
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techweenie

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I've been guilty of this a few times. With a new rig, there's no reason to encode below 256. I wish there was an exclusive service for high quality mp3's. Has anyone hear looked into the /. story about renting mp3's? Anyone know what they're encoded at?
 
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swayinOtis

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yeah, CDex is great. It's free and very easy to use, and the LAME encoder is top notch. I wouldn't use media player (bwahaha).

As for .oog? What the hell is that, some linux stuff? :)

CDex and many other rippers/encoders do everything you said. They use CDDB to compile track lists, etc. they write the wave or mp3 file with the artist, album and track name. All you do is click and go. It's really quite easy.






 
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<< As for .oog? What the hell is that, some linux stuff? >>


OGG Vorbis is a lossy transform encoder for audio, similar to MP3. However, OGG is open source, so there is no license required to use it at all, in any application. Plus, there's a quality hike over MP3 to boot. There are speculations that future Vorbis releases could be Wavelet transform encoders, so there's even more potential over MP3 there. The author of CD Paranoia (a fantastic CD ripping program for Linux) began developing Vorbis a few years ago IIRC. He says if MP3 was open source, he would've never began developing Vorbis, but there is a need here for Vorbis. Meanwhile, MP4 is in the works, and is a joint effort with the RIAA, so it's going to be interesting if Vorbis becomes more popular than MP4 (I hope so!).
 
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