Dear Cdex User, At a bit rate of 48 kbps, your files will be small. Please do not use this small rate for music. You need a higher bit rate for music, like 128 or up to 192. The higher the bit rate, the more space your mp3's will take up. Some people love to use 320 kbps for music, though I don't think it is good, because it makes no difference to me how it sounds. It just makes the mp3's gargantuan. . The lower bit rates are fine for voice mp3's, no music or sound effects. There are different settings for the quality, like lowest, below normal, normal, highest. 44,100 is the range of frequencies you hear that is used by the encoder. I leave that setting alone, whether I encode talking books or music. Although some people suggest using 11,000 something for talking books, I just don't trouble myself to change it, but when I am doing music programming or talking books, I raise the rate for music and lower it for talking books. Hope it makes sense to you somehow. I am working with Cdex 1.5. Much of what I am doing is encoding from analog input, even though I rip CD's from a separate CD player. I leaveit alone because it is just much faster and easier for ME to just jump from one external unit to another in my encoding work. NOw that I have confused you even more, need I say more?
Mimi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tessa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 5:33 AM Subject: more on tracks ripping to slow > Hi Guys: > Well I think I've sort of figured out the problem, but there's more to it. I > really don't know what the heck I've done. > I'm using cdex 1.51 with windows 98. > I decided to redo a cd the original copy when I zipped it up was 37mb, when I > redid it the zip file was 13mb is major compression a feature of 1.51. I know > that zipping mp3 files does not compress them and even when I look at the > uncompressed files they're small, only 1mb and change where most used to be 2 or > 3mb. > So, is this just an issue between upgrades and nothing to worry over? > Now looking at the user settings > the ripping method is set to standard > thread priority is normal, what exactly is this and what does it do? > bit rate is 48kbps > quality normal q=5 what is this and can I increase it without suffering? > output sample rate is 44100 what is this? > Now I think I had set either the bit rate or the output sample rate higher and > that may have been the cause of the major slow down, but I don't know if there > was any increase in quality and my question re the compression hasn't been > changed because of altering these settings. > If anyone has a clue what I'm talking about LOL I'd be interested in hearing > about it. No, the cd being copied from was not damaged. Thanks for any ideas. > Tessa > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or if the spam cops halt you at the mailbox > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSM [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ________________________________________ _______ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
