[rescue] vinyl - wav - cd

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 05:07:41PM -0400, Carl R. Friend wrote:
> >    If you don't care too much about the absolute quality of
> > the end product, you can rip to MP3 format at 256k or so using
> > something like bladeenc.  I've done that in the past, to great
> > advantage, using an Indy.
> 
> I wouldn't use bladeenc.  LAME produces better-sounding MP3s for the
> same bitrate, and rips about 4x faster on the same hardware, IME.

Wait, I'm confused - CDs have 44.1K 16 bit samples per stereo channel,
so that is 88.2K * 16 Bits, or 176.4K Bytes/second, right? So what is
the benefit of a 256K MP3?

I'm not saying there isn't any, I just don't have the info to make
sense of it myself...

Thanks in advance,

Lionel 

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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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