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Posted by Adrian A on 01/10/07 16:44
musicman wrote:
> Gary wrote:
>> "Wolfgang Schwanke" <see@sig.nature> wrote in message
>> news:uv60oe.8n.ln@wschwanke.de...
>>> "musicman" <stradlinizzy@yahoo.com> wrote in
>>> news:1168346068.758602.68300@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
>>>
>>>> the AC-3 format is far superior to MP3
>>>
>>> Sure it offers 5.1 channels as an option, which MP3 in its
>>> conventional incarnation does not, and it offers some more options
>>> concerning bit depths and sampling rates. Otherwhise it's quite
>>> comparable, namely a lossy algorithm for audio. But you don't need
>>> so many channels for
>>> plain stereo music (and you can't create them anyway with your
>>> machine), and there's no point in using bit depths and sampling
>>> rates differing from those of CD, if CD or LP are your sources.
>>>
>>> MP3 is fine for plain audio, the actual quality depends on the
>>> choice
>>> of encoder software and on the bandwidth setting you use. MP3 with
>>> 196 kBit/s using a good encoder is excellent and for all practical
>>> purposes indistinguishable from the CD or the 44/16 stereo WAV you
>>> created from your LP. If you're really paranoid you can encode at
>>> 256 or 320 kBit/s. And if you detest MP3 fundamentally you can use
>>> a completely different lossy format such as OGG. All of these
>>> options are preferrable to what you're doing.
>>>
>>>> a DVD+R holds 6 hours of music on the lowest resolution- no, there
>>>> is no wasted disk space- you can look at the finished disk and see
>>>> it has burned on it, for the entire diameter of the disk
>>>
>>> Of course it appears physically full, that follows from the process
>>> you're using. But most of that space contains the (blank) video
>>> image. The audio just takes a small fraction of the disk.
>>>
>>>> but the resolution can be turned up and you can fit 1 hour of
>>>> music on a DVD+R of very high quality AC-3 music format
>>>
>>> The audio resolution Panasonic DVD machines use for recording is
>>> fixed, someone mentioned that already upthread. You're playing
>>> around with the bandwidth used for the blank video image there,
>>> without changing anything concerning the audio. Completely
>>> pointless.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, MP3 and OGG encoders have lots of options that
>>> can really affect audio quality. You can set the tradeoff between
>>> disk
>>> usage and quality exactly to your liking. Not so with the DVD
>>> recorder.
>>>
>>>> MP3's are crap- you may as well play a stereo soundtrack and cut
>>>> one channel out, that's how much info is missing
>>>
>>> Nonsense, see above.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> --
>>> She's made you some kind of laughing stock
>>> Because you dance to disco and you don't like rock
>>>
>>> http://www.wschwanke.de/ usenet_20031215 (AT) wschwanke
>>> (DOT) de
>>
>> This music man chap is just either really dense or a troll.
>>
>> I give up as it is now obvious he is just not really aware of what
>> he is saying.
>>
>> Gary
>
>
> that's a really immature reaction on your part- basically what you're
> saying is, you had no idea that a DVDR could be used to record only
> music in AC-3 compressed format, and ends up sounding pretty damn
> good,
> and is far easier to control and use with the remote via a TV screen-
> with a higher sampling freq 48/16, than a CD-R
>
> hey, whatever, dude...
What he's saying is that you don't know what you're talking about, which
from your posts is self evident.
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