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Why can't people make quality rips of songs...

B

BigToque

Lifer
I don;t know how people do it, but I get sick of people making poor rips of songs. I can't stand downloading a 320 kbps mp3 and having it sound like crap.

grrrr...
 
Yah I'd have to agree... better yet... why don't you go out and buy the CD yourself? Ohhh don't want to do that?? YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
 
Cause some people don't care about quality pretty much. Either that or they don't know how to make a good rip.
 
All my MP3's are 256K CBR, ripped using EAC, & encoded using RazorLame. They're all perfect, & I rip entire albums at once.

And no, I don't share them.

So 😛.

Viper GTS
 


<< I hate it when I get free stuff and it's poor quality! >>



Haha. My friend runs two computers constantly downloading stuff from EDonkey. The quality of the movies he gets are absolute crap. He loves them because they are free. Most of the time they are out of sync, it is hilarious. 🙂
 


<< All my MP3's are 256K CBR, ripped using EAC, & encoded using RazorLame. They're all perfect, & I rip entire albums at once.

And no, I don't share them.

So 😛.

Viper GTS >>

You PIRATE!!! Ripping mp3's makes baby Jesus cry (at least according to the RIAA) 😉
 


<< I hate it when I get free stuff and it's poor quality! >>



Quit whining and either buy the CDs or download them as wavs.
 
What I don't get is why a lot of morons still use CBR when VBR is so much better. I don't even do encoding in MP3 anymore, I use OGG. But before there was OGG, I'd use LAME VBR 🙂
I've tried downloaded waves off kazaa/winmx to convert to ogg but stopped when I did a spectral analysis on one of the waves and saw it was truncated at 16khz. Must have been ripped from an mp3. Now I just download 320kbps mp3 -> 128kbps OGG. Pretty much same quality.
 
<< What I don't get is why a lot of morons still use CBR when VBR is so much better. >>

Some people still use CBR Encoding because not ALL MP3 Players can handle VBR like a PC.
 


<< every time you download an mp3, god kills another kitten. please... think of the kittens. >>


I thought that was when you go *fap fap fap*
 
I don't know how they do it either. People posting absolutely useless messages, like a quote of a post, that's already been quoted 5 times, is just as annoying as those bad mp3s though.

I don't see how they manage to mess them up so bad. What do they DO? I mean all those weird glitchy sounds... Where do they come from? I never get them when I rip with my two cdroms (one burner one regular), even when they read really slowly, like at 0.5x if it's a bad CD. I can encode the mp3s while I use my computer regularly, and the mp3 still comes out normal. So I don't see how people mess it up... if it's underpowered systems - just don't use your system for half an hour or something, that's all.

Oh well. Free is free, so you can't really complain. Not like you paid for something and got a faulty deal.
 


<< I can't stand downloading a 320 kbps mp3 and having it sound like crap. >>



If you think that 320 kbps MP3's sound like crap why do you use them?

In my opinion there are three possible reasons to use MP3:
- you don't care too much about audio quality
- you do care but don't know of anything better
- compatibility issues (MP3 players, file sharing etc.)

If you want files that sound exactly like the original music you should not be using MP3 in the first place.

MP3 was never designed as an audiophile format. It's main purpose was to produce adequate audio quality @ 128 kbps. Above that most older encoders (Xing and Blade) scale badly with bitrate, they just give you bloated files with only slightly better quality. LAME (the best encoder at the moment) however was originally designed as a test encoder to "push the boundaries" of the format. You can get near transparent quality using LAME and certain presets.

P.S. If you really want quality you'll just have to buy the CD's and do the ripping yourself.
 


<< go buy a cd you pirate, arrgghhh.

Tim >>



I do if I like the CD enough, but I only know that after I have downloaded and listened to it.

 
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