[plug] Ripping to MP3

I am the LinuxAlien linuxalien at optusnet.com.au
Sat Aug 3 23:43:51 WST 2002


I recorded to friends sing tonight, its in wav format, goto convert to MP3 
but need to edit the start of it, there is to much silence and bits of 
other songs. What could i use for that?
Then what can i use for the actual mp3 encoding?
Tim
At 23:33 02/08/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>I'll agree with that, you're going to end up passing these mp3s onto your 
>mates, and they're gonna have/friends will have good sound cards, who'll 
>be constant scrutinisers of sound like myself (hehe, talk about bad 
>sentence structure! lol!). There's a whole heap of time that people always 
>seem to forget about and that's bedtime. Set everything to the slowest, 
>most paranoid setting possible and wake up to beautiful quality mp3s! None 
>of that 128 rubbish though, go for a good 192 onwards (mayyyyyybe a 160).
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>tomato
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>>If you're using cdparanoia or some program (like grip) that uses it or 
>>embeds it, yes: turn off the paranoia and quailty control features. That 
>>way it won't overlap reads, do scratch detection etc. Personally I 
>>reccomend patience instead...
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>>>I was ripping to wav. The MP3 encoding is slow as well.
>> > I have a Cyrix II 266 with 32Mb ram.
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>>The MP3 encoding is slow because your computer is slow, really. Maybe 
>>some commercial encoders are fast, but probably at the expense of 
>>quality. You only rip once - you listen many many times.
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>>--
>>Craig Ringer
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>>         -- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
>>         while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }
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