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10 March 2003 09:32 PM |
Yep. You're hearing right! MP3 is not as good as CD, IMO even at the highest sampling rate it's still quite noticeable. But not when the engine is on...:) So the whole trick is to find the lowest sampling rate that you find OK. Something else to bear in mind is that not all rippers are of the same quality - use RealPlayer or Winwhateveritscalled (the one with 'windows') & even the highest rate isn't very good - or at least, wasn't good last time I gave it a bash, which admittedly was some time ago now :rolleyes::). A very good one is LAME with ExactAudioCopy as the front end. You can do a lot lower sampling rates to get as good a quality with this one. 192 variable at the 'high quality' setting is the 'break even' point to me - it's very much diminishing returns after that; some MP3 players can't cope with the variable bit rates, though, so a higher sampling rate needs to be picked, unfortunately, to get the same apparent quality.
Sorry for the drivel. Hope some of it helps!
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