On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Brad Bechtel wrote:
The technology is relatively easy to master, the sound is quite good,
and the sizes are decent. For example, I made an MP3 of the song
"Dwight's Blues" from Rob Ickes' new CD "Slide City" (for testing
purposes, not for dissemination). The original
Bob Soron writes:
I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has
been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike
me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel
so differently about the two. (I'm not implying you have,
Bob says:
I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has
been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike
me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel so
differently about the two.
I don't have the specs in front of
I have to admit some curiosity. One of the reasons Sony's MiniDisc has been met with disdain is that it uses a lossy format. MP3 doesn't strike me as all that different, and I do wonder why many people seem to feel so differently about the two. (I'm not implying you have, Brad, just taking off on
I don't see an MP3 recorder anywhere in the near future. You have to record
in AIFF or WAV format, then translate to MP3 format.
If your CD drive supports it - and most do - it appears, judging by the
elapsed time it takes, you can extract CD audio files directly to MP3
format; there's a huge
Brad Bechtel wrote:
I'll admit it. I downloaded the Other Ones' MP3 of ''Mississippi Half Step.'' It
sucked, to quote Jeff Wall. There are a lot of decent MP3s out there (see
http://www.mp3.com for legal ones; search for the others).
The technology is relatively easy to master, the
Brad Bechtel wrote:
I would expect that bands will end up doing a lot of recording to hard disk in
whatever format they see fit, but I wouldn't be surprised to see MP3 being the
delivery format for a while.
Yeah, MP3 is only useful as a way to compress an existing master audio
file into a
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jon Weisberger wrote:
[...] MP3s are, I
think, mostly played back on computer audio systems (duh), on which the
difference between an MP3 and a CD is barely detectable, if at all.
Well, here's another of those areas in which I get confused. Why do people
use their
