>From my experience (only from ripping CDs.. not albums) 1. Ripping while doing "other things" which causes everything to fight for CPU time.
2. Skips/scratches in the CDs. Charles Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to ripping MP3 files and have a bunch of questions based on > my first experiences. Anyone who cares to can answer onlist or in > private email, and I'm perfectly happy to have URL pointers to > information on this, as opposed to patient explanations. > > Anyway, I was wondering if someone on the list had some understanding > of MP3 files and could tell me why I'm having intermittent problems > with some files I created skipping. The skips do not occur in the > same places each time and whene I rewind, they never skip the second > time. > > Is there something wrong with the files themselves or is my computer > causing a problem somehow? It doesn't appear to me to be related to > other activity on the computer (I've watched the CPU activity and > there is no spike just where there's a dropout). > > And someone else has reported that there are dropouts when she > downloaded the MP3s. > > Anyone have an idea what's going on here? > > The MP3s in quesiton are at: > > http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Collegium/HimmelUndErde/ > > (forgive the flaws of our performances -- we are musicologists, not > professional musicians) > > One piece has had it happen just before the end twice when I was > listening to it. That piece is the third one down from the top, and > the dropouts have happened on the word "plötzlich" in the last 15 or > 20 seconds of the MP3. But when you rewind, there's no dropout. > > Just playing it back myself, I found no dropout playing from near the > end, but if I played from the beginning, when it got to the end, it > dropped out at exactly the same place. > > Both the person who reported this to me and I are using Quicktime to > play MP3s. And it's not a streaming issue, as the problem occurs > whether I'm listening to the copies from the website (which download > anyway, as Quicktime downloads in the background while playing what's > already been downloaded) or from my local hard drive. > > I was doing other things wite the PC while I was ripping these, but I > listened all the way through before uploading and heard the dropouts, > but rewound and heard that the problems were intermittent. > > Any idea on this? > > I ripped them at 64bits, too, and was wondering if that's normal for > this kind of situation (putting classical music on a web page). I > also did 128bit and VBR recordings, and those latter two sound really > lovely, as good as straight from the CD. The 64bit ones sound > remarkably good, though a little harsh, and with just a tad of minor > distortion at a few loud/high points (some distortion was in the > original recording, which was done with two good mics, but recorded > to a portable mini-disc player/recorder through a $1.98 mixing > board). > > Can one use less than 64bits and get a decent trade-off of sound > quality and size? I noticed that the 64bit ones are basically half > the size of the 128bit ones, which doesn't entirely make sense to me, > but, oh well (I wouldn't think a lossy compression standard like MPEG > would have such a simply arithmetic relationship of file size to > decreasing bit rate). And I did the VBR files with a range of 48 to > 160bits, and those came out about 10% smaller than the 128bit files, > not much of a savings, but with audible improvement in quality of the > overall sound envelope. > > Can all MP3 players play VBR MP3s or not? > > And would doing VBR with a range of 36 to 96 (or some such range) get > me a significantly better sound at about the same size as the > straight 64bit? Or does it entirely depend on the type of music? > > Thanks in advance for any answers/suggestions/pointers that anyone > can give! > > -- > David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton > David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
