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More on Audio Data compression (was: [ECS] Help with Log States) Michael David Mon, 26 Oct 1998 23:02:49 -0500

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Hi Garnet!

As a recovering audio mixer (no matter how hard you try, you never really
get it out of your blood...), I plead guilty to being an audio purest.  :)
So, my first inclination is to shy away from a compression scheme that will
yeild audible artifacts because they'll drive me nuts.  For the same reason,
it has gotten to a point where we don't go out to movies anymore because all
the theaters we have tried in our area have one problem or another with
their playback chain.  And, for $7.50, I expect the theater to sound totally
awesome.  As it is, my living room generally sounds better than many of the
theaters in our area.  In addition, as an added benefit, I can hit pause,
and hit the restroom when the beer takes it's toll. :)

Having said all that, there must be some form of compression out there in
the 250 to 500Kb range that is fairly transparent.  I just haven't found it
yet (AC3, maybe?).  And, ultimately, maybe the answer is to go with
uncompressed .wav files.  With the cost of hard drives as they are now, it
wouldn't be that awful.

Or, maybe we'll just stick with the changer and run it with that Slink-e
software.  I don't remember who posted that link, but that pair looks great,
and well worth the money.  In addition, their software now supports MP3
files.  If you guys haven't checked it out, I encourage you to do so.

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	gbailey [mailto:gbailey@attcanada.net]
Sent:	Monday, October 26, 1998 9:02 PM
To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject:	RE: [ECS] Help with Log States

You guys realize that almost every radio station in the country plays their
music off a hard drive. They use a commercial compression setup, but it is
pre mp3. The local rock station here uses 10GB hard drives. What you are
doing is far higher fidelity than they can do !

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