Re: re switch

[Janie Landrum]

I am using the payed vursion of switch it works great.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Nov 26, 2015, at 8:02 AM, brian parker  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi, is anyone using the free version of switch to convert files from one 
> formatt to another. if noone is using switch, i won't bother you with
> the details of my problem. brian. 
> 

RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can still
change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
problem!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i 
want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the 
rate you want. brian.

RE: re switch

[Iolaire]

Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can still
change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
problem!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i 
want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the 
rate you want. brian.




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Re: re switch

[Donald L. Roberts]

Tom, you are absolutely not increasing the file quality by doing so.  
All you are doing is increasing the file size.


Don Roberts


On 11/26/2015 7:24 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:

I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can still
change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
problem!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
rate you want. brian.

RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

Okay...then I must have gotten incorrect information; it may be "mind over
matter" but it seems like files work better and sound better in the VIP
Client if they are at a higher bit rate!  I figured it did increase the
quality of sound; maybe my ear is just telling me the wrong things?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Donald L.
Roberts
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:01 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: Re: re switch

Tom, you are absolutely not increasing the file quality by doing so.  
All you are doing is increasing the file size.

Don Roberts


On 11/26/2015 7:24 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
> I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can
still
> change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
> problem!
> Tom Kaufman
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
> parker
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
> To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
> Subject: re switch
>
> Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
> want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
> rate you want. brian.
>
>
>
>

RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
say...at 128?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can still
change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
problem!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i 
want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the 
rate you want. brian.




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RE: re switch

[Iolaire]

Hi.  strictly speaking no, not in the file itself.  A 128kbs quality file
will always be a 128kbs quality file.  You can downgrade from 128kbs but if
you do that, you will never get a 128kbs quality again for that file.
However what you can do is improve the quality of the reproduction in
playback.  If you play your music on the PC via a hi-fi system, you can
dramatically improve the quality of the sound by using a DAC but they can be
expensive, depending on just how much you are willing to pay for better
quality.  I always play my music from the PC through a DAC as it makes a
huge difference.  Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 17:08
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
say...at 128?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can still
change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
problem!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i 
want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the 
rate you want. brian.




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Re: re switch

[covici]

If you are starting out with a wav, then you will increase the quality,
I would convert to flac if I wanted good quality.

Tom Kaufman <tomca...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Okay...then I must have gotten incorrect information; it may be "mind over
> matter" but it seems like files work better and sound better in the VIP
> Client if they are at a higher bit rate!  I figured it did increase the
> quality of sound; maybe my ear is just telling me the wrong things?
> Tom Kaufman
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Donald L.
> Roberts
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:01 PM
> To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
> Subject: Re: re switch
> 
> Tom, you are absolutely not increasing the file quality by doing so.  
> All you are doing is increasing the file size.
> 
> Don Roberts
> 
> 
> On 11/26/2015 7:24 AM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
> > I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can
> still
> > change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
> > problem!
> > Tom Kaufman
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
> > parker
> > Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
> > To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
> > Subject: re switch
> >
> > Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
> > want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
> > rate you want. brian.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

 John Covici
 cov...@ccs.covici.com

RE: re switch

[Curtis Delzer]

once a file is encrypted, it can never be improved.

At 09:07 AM 11/26/2015, you wrote:

So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
say...at 128?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can still
change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
problem!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
rate you want. brian.




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RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

I hear all of what you folks are saying; I do have a question: before the
chat client that VIp has now was updated, often if a file was at a lower bit
rate, the client player would not play it!  However...once the bit rate was
upgraded to say 320, it usually would do the trick!  Does anyone know why
this seemed to work?  If raising the bit rate did nothing, then what did?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Curtis
Delzer
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:44 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

once a file is encrypted, it can never be improved.

At 09:07 AM 11/26/2015, you wrote:
>So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
>say...at 128?
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
>increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
>quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
>Walter.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
>Kaufman
>Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can
still
>change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
>problem!
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
>parker
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
>To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
>Subject: re switch
>
>Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
>want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
>rate you want. brian.
>
>
>
>
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RE: re switch

[Iolaire]

Hi.  What contents do the files have?  Is it music, or spoken word?  If it
is the spoken word then you could try reducing the bit rate and see if that
will play because the spoken word doesn't have to be at 128kbs.  On the
other hand, if it is music then I don't really know the answer to that
question.  Have you tried converting a file from say, 320kbs to 128kbs and
then played it?  Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 18:48
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

I hear all of what you folks are saying; I do have a question: before the
chat client that VIp has now was updated, often if a file was at a lower bit
rate, the client player would not play it!  However...once the bit rate was
upgraded to say 320, it usually would do the trick!  Does anyone know why
this seemed to work?  If raising the bit rate did nothing, then what did?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Curtis
Delzer
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:44 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

once a file is encrypted, it can never be improved.

At 09:07 AM 11/26/2015, you wrote:
>So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
>say...at 128?
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
>increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
>quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
>Walter.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
>Kaufman
>Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can
still
>change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
>problem!
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
>parker
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
>To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
>Subject: re switch
>
>Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
>want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
>rate you want. brian.
>
>
>
>
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RE: re switch

[Curtis Delzer]

the player has a minimum bit rate at which it will decrypt the files, 
so it works.


At 10:47 AM 11/26/2015, you wrote:

I hear all of what you folks are saying; I do have a question: before the
chat client that VIp has now was updated, often if a file was at a lower bit
rate, the client player would not play it!  However...once the bit rate was
upgraded to say 320, it usually would do the trick!  Does anyone know why
this seemed to work?  If raising the bit rate did nothing, then what did?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Curtis
Delzer
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:44 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

once a file is encrypted, it can never be improved.

At 09:07 AM 11/26/2015, you wrote:
>So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
>say...at 128?
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
>increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
>quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
>Walter.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
>Kaufman
>Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can
still
>change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
>problem!
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
>parker
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
>To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
>Subject: re switch
>
>Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
>want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
>rate you want. brian.
>
>
>
>
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RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

The files are music (we usually don't have as much trouble with files not
playing with the latest version of the client now; what I am saying
is...often someone would have a file that wouldn't play (with the older
version of the chat client) raising the bit rate usually would allow it then
to play!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 1:55 PM
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

Hi.  What contents do the files have?  Is it music, or spoken word?  If it
is the spoken word then you could try reducing the bit rate and see if that
will play because the spoken word doesn't have to be at 128kbs.  On the
other hand, if it is music then I don't really know the answer to that
question.  Have you tried converting a file from say, 320kbs to 128kbs and
then played it?  Walter.

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
Kaufman
Sent: 26 November 2015 18:48
To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
Subject: RE: re switch

I hear all of what you folks are saying; I do have a question: before the
chat client that VIp has now was updated, often if a file was at a lower bit
rate, the client player would not play it!  However...once the bit rate was
upgraded to say 320, it usually would do the trick!  Does anyone know why
this seemed to work?  If raising the bit rate did nothing, then what did?
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Curtis
Delzer
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:44 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Subject: RE: re switch

once a file is encrypted, it can never be improved.

At 09:07 AM 11/26/2015, you wrote:
>So is there another way to increase the sound quality ty of a file that is
>say...at 128?
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Iolaire
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 11:57 AM
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>Hi.  Why are you increasing the bit rate from 128 to 320?  You are not
>increasing the quality in any way, you will stillhave a file with 128kbs
>quality but the file will be larger without any increase of quality.
>Walter.
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Tom
>Kaufman
>Sent: 26 November 2015 15:24
>To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
>Subject: RE: re switch
>
>I still use the free version of switch; not sure...but I believe I can
still
>change the bit rate!  I have raised several files from 128 to 320 with no
>problem!
>Tom Kaufman
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
>parker
>Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2015 10:07 AM
>To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
>Subject: re switch
>
>Hi, in my free version, i have lost the ability to choose what rate i
>want the conversion to be. in your paid version, can you choose the
>rate you want. brian.
>
>
>
>
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RE: re switch

[Johny Cassidy]

I think it does have a time limit. It will prompt you to upgrade at some point.

Johny Cassidy

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BBC Radio 4 Current Affairs

New Broadcasting House
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-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian parker
Sent: 10 July 2014 09:53
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch 

Hi, i am using the non professional version of switch. it has stopped 
working, and is only producing small files of mp3, which are not 
complete. does anyone know if the free version has a time limit on 
it. i am using it to change ogg files to mp3s
brian.

RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

I used it last week (the file wasn't that big) but it was and is complete!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 4:53 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch 

Hi, i am using the non professional version of switch. it has stopped 
working, and is only producing small files of mp3, which are not 
complete. does anyone know if the free version has a time limit on 
it. i am using it to change ogg files to mp3s
brian.

RE: re switch

[Tom Kaufman]

Hello Bryan and list:  Actually I haven't been able to remember how to
convert anything other than to an MP3 file!  Am sure there's a way; I just
don't remember how!  Sorry I'm not much help!
Tom Kaufman

-Original Message-
From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of brian
parker
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:38 AM
To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org
Subject: re switch

Hi tom, have you tried to convert an ogg file with the free version, 
that is what i was trying to do. it seems to give only an example of 
what the conversion would be like. brian.