Re: Prepping for new iPod
Timothy Luoma <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 13 May 2003 09:38:42 -0600, Gordon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing to watch out for: if you encode using VBR, the vbr header in > the mp3 file may become "invalid" after tagging with some tagging > software. Am I corret that VBR is preferable because the software somehow automagically knows when to reduce the BR when it won't matter, thus resulting in a smaller file with roughly the same sound quality? > As to which encoding switches to use, I'm sure there are folks out there > with more informed opinions than me. I tend to use the extremes myself, > in terms of vbr quality settings. For music (in my case, classical) I > use the highest quality VBR with true stereo settings. I read the FAQ at http://www.mp3-faq.org/faq3.html#3.16 but I'm still not entirely clear on the benefit of "jstereo" > Borders is now selling some unabridged audio books that have appealed to > me. The longest so far has been 17 cds. > With those low quality vbr mono settings, an entire cd still ends up > being smaller than 30 megabytes...which is more easily "digestible" by > the iPod with it's 32megs of NVRAM. Interesting. Thanks. TjL ------------------------------------------------------ ephPod Mailing List FAQ and HomePage http://www.ephpod.com mailto:[email protected] to susbcribe mailto:[email protected] to unsusbcribe mailto:[email protected] the mailing-list itself