Hmm... seems to me that my Seagate Ultra160 15,000RPM x15 is a little faster than this 7200PRM IDE heathen! Methinks it's time to take back the night! Common Seagate, more SCSI goodness!
I use audiograbber for DAE to Wav extraction, since this a relatively simple process any half-decent ripper will do. But for mp3 encoding I use a commercial suite program for (gasp!) Win9x, it's called Audioactive Production Studio, it does up to 320Kbit encodind at 44.1Khz, and sounds just as good as a CD, and I know that for a fact through testing with my Yamaha amp and Sennheiser HD-580 phones, as well as several commercial and software frequency analizers. The bottom line is, if you want an ass-load of music at decent quality go for 96, 128Kbit, for good sound or higher frequency music (drum 'n bass, ambient, experimental, some instrumental)go for 160Kbit or higher, I recommend 224Kbit Stereo. Keep in mind though, even at 224Kbit you can fit about 6-7 hours of near-cd quality sound, without much (or any) distortion, on one CD.
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Hmm... seems to me that my Seagate Ultra160 15,000RPM x15 is a little faster than this 7200PRM IDE heathen! Methinks it's time to take back the night! Common Seagate, more SCSI goodness!
I use audiograbber for DAE to Wav extraction, since this a relatively simple process any half-decent ripper will do. But for mp3 encoding I use a commercial suite program for (gasp!) Win9x, it's called Audioactive Production Studio, it does up to 320Kbit encodind at 44.1Khz, and sounds just as good as a CD, and I know that for a fact through testing with my Yamaha amp and Sennheiser HD-580 phones, as well as several commercial and software frequency analizers. The bottom line is, if you want an ass-load of music at decent quality go for 96, 128Kbit, for good sound or higher frequency music (drum 'n bass, ambient, experimental, some instrumental)go for 160Kbit or higher, I recommend 224Kbit Stereo. Keep in mind though, even at 224Kbit you can fit about 6-7 hours of near-cd quality sound, without much (or any) distortion, on one CD.