"David P. Schwartz" wrote:
> All that said, there's a HUGE debate going on within the audio recording industry about what the next standard recording format should
> be that will supercede the CD format (44.1 kHz, 16 bits, 2 channels). Given the incredible "success" of services like Napster that are
> fueled by people plugging their Walkman into their computer and recording the output direct-to-MP3 format, it's amazing anybody is even
> concerned! The fidelity of cassette-to-MP3 is somewhere between AM radio and shortwave radio. People consider this "state of the
> art". Nobody will even notice the difference that 96 kHz, 24 bits, 5.1 surround THX encoding has over this if they think this is about
> the same as "CD quality"...
Come on... a QUALITY codec like l3enc (Fraunhoffer), run with the -h
option, does better than FM radio, in my opinion, even at the 128kpbs
rate. Agreed, however, that most Winblows CD Rip programs sacrifice
EVERYTHING in return for codec speed, and as a result, the typical
pirate MP3 file makes anything over 3KHz sound like it was piped thru
one of those "performance honda exaust systems" ...
I use MP3 as a jukebox format for my private CD collection. Of over
2,000 files, fewer than 50 are from Napster. Although I must confess,
a couple hundred are files I do not have a legal right to posess, due
to the fact that I copied them from someone else's physical CD (the
rest, I own).
Samplitude Studio, and a number of other HD Direct recording softwares
have supported the 96/24 format for quite some time, including
hardware I/O support. Course, these are Winblows apps...
Personally, I think the next "standard" for released material (DVD
Audio) ought to be flexible in nature. Variable channels, variable
sampling rate, and variable bits per track (or even, support for the
MPEG standards of audio compression). Stick headers in each track.
Ive heard that there is a CD-walkman sized gadget that plays MP3s
burned onto a CDR. I want it.
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