Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-25 Thread Tristan Watkins
Original message Subject:Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate? Author: Guilherme Menegon Arantes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 25th June 2005 3:13:12 On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:21:08PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "T

Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-25 Thread Guilherme Menegon Arantes
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:21:08PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Tristan Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: A reasonable compression rate? > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The storage requirements for 1000 records at 24 bit 96 KHz would be = > astronomical. IIRC, I mixed down

Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-25 Thread Tristan Watkins
Original message Subject:Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate? Author: matt kane's brain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 24th June 2005 3:55:23 > 24-bit 96kHz is 16.9 Mbytes / minute per channel. Yeah, I should correct my post from

Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-24 Thread matt kane's brain
At 03:41 PM 6/24/2005, z66 wrote: i guess some lossless format will take over sooner or later as bandwidth and storage makes it accessible already flac and Apple Lossless give 2:1 compression. Eh. the Sony format you mentioned sounds interesting! i wonder of the way of interpreting and descri

Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-24 Thread matt kane's brain
At 03:54 PM 6/24/2005, Tristan Watkins wrote: But hell, 32 bit 96 KHz is nothing. Why not go for one of those audiophile formats like Sony's 1 bit 2.1 MHz DVD audio format which is meant to replicate the stream of analogue audio more accurately than larger bit types? No clue what kind of file s

Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-24 Thread z66
seconded! however i'm making use of encoded audio already and most likely i'll have to deal with it a lot during next 5 years, so i'm interested to handle the matter best way possible at any time. ///Z >>Getting fanatical about any of these choices is a bit silly >>if you ask me,as five

Re: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-24 Thread z66
.. i'm using lame LAME 3.90.3 for MP3 encoding using VBR [which in average turns out to be ~200kbps]. been mostly encoding seedee extracted WAVs as well as my own production and i can't tell much of a difference, maybe sounds a little more 'compact'. lame encoding presets are optimized and

RE: (313) A reasonable compression rate?

2005-06-24 Thread Stoddard, Kamal
> Getting fanatical about any of these choices is a bit silly > if you ask me,as five years from now there'll probably be a >new format that poops all over the compession of today >and we'll all be glad we kept the vinyls so that we can re-encode >everything from the source in the new format.