[rescue] vinyl - wav - cd

[Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:16:56PM -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- 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?

the 256K MP3 is 256kbits/second vs. 1411kbits/second for the
CD (assuming your calculations are right .

Cordially
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