Lossless encoders, like AIFF or something? That's the format I'm most familiar with, as some Creative Commons stuff comes with MP3 and AIFF versions.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 20, 2016, at 5:16 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu <listse...@me.com> wrote: > > Red Book CDs (i.e., the kind you play in your CD player) are lossless PCM > (i.e. mostly like Wav or AIFF) with a 16-bit sample, 44100 samples per > second, two channels. That means it takes about 10.1 MB per minute of audio. > And yes, an hour of CD audio is about 640 MB. no problem for today’s > handsome hard disks, or even SSDs. We don’t need encoders any more. And, > lossless encoders are available that can reliably compress the audio without > any lossy encoding. The sizes aren’t quite as good (40%, best case) but it’s > still an improvement and the compromise is still worth making if you consider > that those rips will be with you forever. > > Summary: just use lossless. It’s better. :) > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
