Marian Schedenig 8,244 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 Why bother compressing them? Wav is a lossless rip of an original soundtrack....You could always flac them.Marian - Dangerous Liaisons (George Fenton) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John McClane 1 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 I can , honestly, never tell the difference when it comes to sound compression or anything regarding that. I just love the music. Download any mp3 file at a bitrate of 96 Kbps or less, then edit your post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panthera 0 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 He's too cool to download music illegally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 ZERO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trent B 337 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I can , honestly, never tell the difference when it comes to sound compression or anything regarding that. I just love the music. I can tell the difference. Anything under 192 you can hear distortion to the file and it just sounds pretty awful... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,763 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 To my ears, 128 just sounds a bit flat, and at 96 you can start to hear the artefacts big time, with crescendos sounding very distorted.I now encode music at 160 for my mp3 player (512MB, holds just over 7 CDs at that bitrate) and it sounds perfect using my earbuds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Memoirs of a Geisha (Itunes bonus tracks)Memoirs of a Geisha scoreMunichHook Disc 1DraculaSuperman IIClose EncountersTemple Of Doom DVD rip+ various themes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I encode at 192 VBR(variable bit rate).It seems the sweet spot for MP3.I don't like proprietary formats full of Digital Rights Managements like AAC ,ATRAC and WMA.I already made the mistake of ripping all my c.d.'s to WMA only to end up buying an ipod so I had to re-rip them.I choose MP3 because I don't want to get stuck with AAC's if I choose another brand of MP3 player in the future.MP3's also work better in editors.Magic Audio Cleaning Lab didn't want to export a file I made from WMA's and won't even accept AAC's.K.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,646 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I try to avoid any bitrate that begins with a "1". But 192 is alright of course. When I edit music, I always export them as 320 KBit MP3s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 I made the unreleased RotS expanded cues 320k,because the original 128k game files have to be converted to WAVE to be edited then re-compressed.I figure if a second compression is going on I might as well minimise the effects.K.M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivier 5 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 All these are 320kps mp3s . I keep the original wav rips for most of these on my external hard drive.John Williamsso far,140 tracks1.29 GbNot the whole of my CD collection, mind you. Just a selection.Star Wars (It is easier to have a special directory)66 files0.737 GbThese are only selections from all 6 scores (using the 20th Anniversary editions).For comparison--Jerry Goldsmith516 files3.599 Gb(Goldsmith's Star Trek files are in a specific directory, but included here; Nemesis hasn't been mp3'ed yet)Other Composers (Several Specific Directories, plus one Miscellaneous)995 files7.726 GbFilm Score Songs & Musicals144 files0.742 Gb(there are are few duplicates in the Songs directory-- ie, files featured both in the composer' and in this directory)TV themes, suites and tracks99 files0.604 GbTotal1960 files14.6 Gb10.51% of which is by John Williams (Star Wars included); more to be added(26.32% by Goldsmith-- more to be added) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Skywalker 1,807 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 nothing, since i had just to reinstall and erase every thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Woods 569 Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Out of 189GB - 8.93GB is Williams-Erik-189GB?! Jeez...Do you keep it in .wav format? Cos if not that is a LOT of music.No... 192k to 224K MP3's or 192K AACLooking at the collection now I have...2578 albums89 days 3 hours 0 minutes and 15 seconds of music.41740 tracksTrust me... most of this stuff I will never listen to again!-Erik- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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