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Re: [ECS] MP3 encoder question Ingo Dean Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:43:10 -0500

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BladeEnc <http://home.swipnet.se/~w-82625/> is supposed to be the most
accurate.  Tord focuses first on quality, and second on speed.

Xing is the fastest, but well known for stripping out the higher
frequencies.

Plugger+ is in between.  Better quality than Xing, faster than BladeEnc.

Since you're only going to rip & encode a CD once, go for BladeEnc if
you've got the CPU cycles.  I have limited access to a fast CPU and want
to encode my entire collection for background and car playing, so I'm
going with Plugger+. It sounds good enough for me in my car.  

Before you ask, I save about 10-15 CD's onto my Libretto and play them
via its output into the input on my car stereo.  I've been looking for a
single-board computer to mount in my car permanently, but haven't found
anything reasonable yet.

Michael David wrote:
> 
> Hi folks!
> 
> For those of you out there with mp3 experience, I have a question:  What's
> the best encoder?
> 
> I've tried the plugger+, and even at 320kbs, the high freq. Info is quite
> attenuated above 8k, and IMO, the depth of the performance suffers too much
> to be useful for critical listening, although it's probably OK for
> background music.  I do like the idea, however, of setting up a music
> server.
> 
> Perhaps some other encoding scheme would be better?  What encoding scheme
> does minidisc use?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Michael David
> michael@michaeldavid.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Don Stephens [mailto:don@sb.net]
> Sent:   Sunday, October 25, 1998 1:08 PM
> To:     ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
> Subject:        Re: [ECS] Help with Log States
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael David <michael@michaeldavid.com>
> To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
> Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 7:36 AM
> Subject: RE: [ECS] Help with Log States
> 
> >Hi Don!
> >
> >Yes, Dan has been very busy trying to solve the connect/disconnect issue.
> I
> >think he'll nail that soon, now that he can reproduce the problem.
> >
> >I'm intrigued by this music server idea.  Tell me all about it.
> 
> Think of converting your cd collection to a series of wav. files, very big
> files. These are compressed via mp3 and put in a database on the hard drive
> of a music server. These files are decoded at play time. No wait for the CD
> to spool up, only limitation on a play list is the size of the hard drive.
> Very trick
> >
> >What's mp3 encoded music sound like?  Is it good enough for listening
> though
> >a nice A/V system?
> 
> Yeah, I think so, although so far I'm playing them through my sony computer
> speakers. Sounds good. You can control the accuracy through the ripper.
> >
> >How about naming, categorizing, searching and retrieving?  Is there a
> ripper
> >that will automatically name the tunes?  Is the a mp3 player out there that
> >can handle a database of a few thousand tunes?
> 
> AudioGrabber calls a net database and labels the CDs and names the tracks.
> 
> >What are you thinking for Ace? For a large database, ACE may not make the
> >best user interface
> 
> I wanted to set up certain play lists, mood, artist, etc and have ACE
> accesss the mp3
> player to play them. Having ECS would be the cats meow, but for an interface
> ACE would be great.
> >
> >Cheers!
> >
> >Michael David
> >michael@michaeldavid.com
> >
> 
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