To Celebrate

[Thames Valley Discos]

My 1000th post, i have just finished a 6/7 week task of re ripping all my cd,s.
All Niceley tagged at 224kb. I dare you to suggest i should have done it at a higher bit rate!!!! lol :beer:

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Well done Paul!

I'm in the middle of doing mine too, so you have my sympathy....

Actually, I am doing mine at 320 though....

[DMX Will]

Congrats :) lol. Personally, I rip all my MP3s at 480kbps








I joke, you can't ;)

[Thames Valley Discos]

Well done Paul!

I'm in the middle of doing mine too, so you have my sympathy....

Actually, I am doing mine at 320 though....
DOH!! i knew it, be back in 7 weeks!!!!!

[Candybeatdiscos]

i prefer 940...mathematically lossless

[Thames Valley Discos]

i prefer 940...mathematically lossless
well you losless me. I just wish there was an easy way to test all the tracks without playing them all...... or is there?

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

i prefer 940...mathematically lossless

Is that WAV then?

I've never found a program that can rip higher than 320kbps to Mp3.

[funkymike]

Hey paul, you should ripped them at 320

[Danno13]

LOL! seriously though, seems madness to not go for the highest bitrate or even WAV (as i'm slowly moving across to..) when hard drives are so ****ed cheap now!

[Thames Valley Discos]

LOL! seriously though, seems madness to not go for the highest bitrate or even WAV (as i'm slowly moving across to..) when hard drives are so ****ed cheap now!

To be honest, there is no difference in sound above 224. Not that i can hear anyway. As for WAV, thats about 40Mb per tune, with no sound quality difference.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

If I were being honest, I also couldn't tell the difference either with some tunes.

Some of the older stuff sounded a bit ropey at 128, and now sounds a bit ropey at 320...

Personally, I think it has a lot to do with the production quality of the CD, as I have some tunes ripped at 128 which sound better then others ripped at 320.

Now does that make sense?

[Corabar Entertainment]

My 1000th post, i have just finished a 6/7 week task of re ripping all my cd,s.
All Niceley tagged at 224kb. I dare you to suggest i should have done it at a higher bit rate!!!! lol :beer:This explains why you've been 'absent' from the forums recently, Paul!

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

This explains why you've been 'absent' from the forums recently, Paul!

Or absent generally..... :teeth:

Have those babies been born yet? :)

[Thames Valley Discos]

no 12 weeks i think to go. Looking at houses at the moment so i can get a room to myself to hide!!!

[Have a disco]

192 is cd std
320 is of video quality

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

192 is cd std
320 is of video quality

No it isn't and we've had this conversation before somewhere on here.

[Thames Valley Discos]

192 is cd std
320 is of video quality
How can 192/320 be cd quality. MP3 by its nature removes a lot of the information from the original cd track, that is considered pointless for the human ear.Therefore it cant be the same quality

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

As I said before (from Wikpedia)

"uncompressed audio as stored on a compact disc has a bit rate of 1411.2 kbit/s"

[BeerFunk]

192 is cd std
320 is of video quality
Ignoring the obvious in this statement (ie. it's wrong), what is 'video quality'? And why is it higher than CD quality?

[Corabar Steve]

I know that a lot of recording studios used to use vhs to record audio on.

[DMX Will]

Ignoring the obvious in this statement (ie. it's wrong), what is 'video quality'? And why is it higher than CD quality?

lol.

I was thinking about this, and how I could answer it, and im not entirely sure.
Just like music, video can be ripped/compressed from whatever source (you can choose) to a figure measured (like audio) in kbps (kb per sec).

So i would assume when you choose the video compression (unless you select otherwise, both the video and audio would be saved with the same kbps, although you can save video higher than 320kbps like audio (768kbps being on i can think of, off the top of my head), so then it makes me wonder if the maximum you can save the audio in a video file is 320kbps.

Now ive confused myself and you lot. I think I might ask at work tomorrow and post during my lunch!

[BeerFunk]

lol.

I was thinking about this, and how I could answer it, and im not entirely sure.
Just like music, video can be ripped/compressed from whatever source (you can choose) to a figure measured (like audio) in kbps (kb per sec).

So i would assume when you choose the video compression (unless you select otherwise, both the video and audio would be saved with the same kbps, although you can save video higher than 320kbps like audio (768kbps being on i can think of, off the top of my head), so then it makes me wonder if the maximum you can save the audio in a video file is 320kbps.

Now ive confused myself and you lot. I think I might ask at work tomorrow and post during my lunch!
I see what you're saying... but with video, depending on the format, there is usually a video stream and an audio stream.

320kbps for the video stream alone would be very poor quality. A DVD could have a video bit rate of anywhere between 1000kbps and 10000kbps.

Of course, if the 320kbps was meant to refer to the quality of the audio within the video, then this is more accurate - probably around the average audio bit rate of a DVD :)

[DMX Will]

I see what you're saying... but with video, depending on the format, there is usually a video stream and an audio stream.

320kbps for the video stream alone would be very poor quality. A DVD could have a video bit rate of anywhere between 1000kbps and 10000kbps.

Of course, if the 320kbps was meant to refer to the quality of the audio within the video, then this is more accurate - probably around the average audio bit rate of a DVD :)

Good im glad you understand! lol.

Although i think, instead of 1000kbps and 10000kbps you mean 1mbps and 10mbps :teeth:

[Paul James Promotions]

320kbps is probrably as high as you need to go with audio. There is a big difference from 128 to 320, and on certain tracks you can tell between 192 and 320.

[jwpentgroup]

I can tell the difference between a 192 and a 320! I am listening on professional studio monitors though..

Personally i rip everything at 320.

[CRAZY K]

Personally i rip everything at 320.

Are you talking of transferring Music CDs to laptop/ hard drives?

Through a modern Disco system cant you make up the "difference" with
graphic equaliser controls?

Thought that was what Daz was saying a while ago?

CRAZY K