[plug] Ripping to MP3

[Trevor Phillips]

On Friday 02 August 2002 23:33, John Knight 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).

I use lame & encode at 160 VBR (Variable Bit Rate) I think it varies the rate 
from 128 to 256, but averages 160. You end up with files a bit bigger than 
128, but of very high quality, since it only uses the extra bandwidth when it 
needs it.

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