acquiring digital music

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 18:19 -0700, Dragos Neagu wrote:
> On 10/6/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> > Flouting my laziness - now that I have an ipod and actually have started
> > to learn what WAV - AAC - MP3 formats are - does anyone want to tell me
> > what FLAC is?
> >
> > Craig
> 
> http://www.vorbis.com/ (flac in the top right)
> flac, in short is a lossless compression (iirc, ~70% the size of a WAV file)
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thanks - I get it - 'Free Lossless Audio Codec' 70% of WAV file is OK

My very unknowledgable observations...

1. My CD-R/RW drives have an easier time ripping audio cd's than the
combo DVD/CD-R/RW drives - especially if they are less than perfect.

2. Apple iPod defaults to 128 bit AAC format (m4a extension) which
sounds pretty damn good. I have read that to get similar quality sound
from MP3 files, you would need 160 bit.

3. My 2 test CD's seemed that encoding WAV ripped files in AAC seemed to
produce a 90%+ saving in file size.

4. Most of the devices that I have looked at have some gotcha...Apple's
iTunes Express must be running and controlled by iTunes running on a
computer (not convenient), Phillips Wireless Music Adaptors (mp3 - wma -
wav only), Sonus - expensive

Easiest / cheapest solution is to hook my old Sony laptop to my
widescreen tv, take the audio output and feed it into stereo and use
something like rhythmbox to play the audio from remote server.

Craig


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