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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:55:33 -0800 From: Dan Martinez <dfm@area.com> To: svlug@svlug.org Subject: Re: [svlug] KDE and GNOME J C Lawrence wrote: > <<shaking my head over the atrocious quality of most of the MP3's > I've run across, even those sampled at 192 or above (I have gnapster > set to not show/esclude everything at 128 or below). Is there any > way to get or make an MP3 which doesn't murder the high > frequencies?>> I don't pretend to be an audiophile, but I've been rather pleased with LAME and its Variable Bit Rate (VBR) support. I can't tell the difference between an original and a VBR-encoded MP3, but that could just mean that I have a tin ear. LAME wrapped in grip, incidentally, is pretty much the ultimate fire-and-forget CD-ripping-and-encoding solution. Wind it up, give it disk, feed it CDs, and watch it go. It can rip multiple CDs before it's finished encoding the first one, so you can run a stack of discs through it in the late afternoon and leave it to finish encoding overnight. All with full CDDB support, of course, and complete user control over the format of output filenames and directory structure. Plus goodies like user control over the number of simultaneous encoding processes, for those lucky enough to be running it on SMP machines. It's the envy of all my unfortunate Windows-only friends. Poor devils. http://www.mp3dev.org/mp3/ http://www.nostatic.org/grip/ Dan ===