Q: My DVD player does not recognize any MP3 discs. Is there a special format I need to burn my disc... ?
A: We recommend using Adaptec Easy CD Creator version 3.5c. When burning the disc, format it using the ISO 9660 format under the CD Layout Properties window. Under the Properties button, click on ISO 9660 8.3 Character File Names, then Mode 1.
Oy! 8.3 filenames? Can this possibly be worth the effort?
Here's irony for you: today a friend that does morning drive-time radio in a major market in the NE corner of the US got the new Rage Against the Machine stuff not from the Big Evil Record Company Du Jour, but from some guy in Europe, via Napster.
We're going to see e.g..ru become just as important in the distribution of pirated music as we have in the past with juarez. Your interpretation of "important" may vary.
> I've been using the VBR Lame Encoder 3.99
> Alpha for a couple of weeks and I love it.
Err? The latest Win beta compile is 3.87, and the latest source isn't too far ahead.
> I have found that Lame sounds better, and
> using VBR will result in a smaller file than
> Blade and still sound better.
This is true depending on what you were doing with Blade. What John Q. Clueless knows of as an mp3 is what he usually gets off of Napster, which is 128kbps and generally encoded with Fraunhofer or Xing's encoders (even worse because it's so abysmally bad and it's in used in so many Windows CD ripping/mp3 encoding utilities). Lameenc VBR-encoded mp3s will be larger than them (once again a shameless plug for the site you should live, learn, love: http://www.r3mix.net/.)
If you were encoding with Blade at a static rate of 256kbps, then the odds are in favor of a lameenc VBR-encoded mp3 being smaller. Not always, because there is always the chance that the mp3 will require an unusually large number of blocks >256kbps, but it's still possible.
Spectral and waveform analysis and such has all been done before, and LAME has been known to be superior for quite some time. I've been singing the praises of this site for at least six months.
If you like Contra, you'll love The Minibosses. Among other classic NES games, they did a cover of the music from the first three levels of Contra, and it's probably the best thing they've done--it's amazing how well it translated to hard rock.
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Oy! 8.3 filenames? Can this possibly be worth the effort?
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We're going to see e.g. .ru become just as important in the distribution of pirated music as we have in the past with juarez. Your interpretation of "important" may vary.
> Alpha for a couple of weeks and I love it.
Err? The latest Win beta compile is 3.87, and the latest source isn't too far ahead.
> I have found that Lame sounds better, and
> using VBR will result in a smaller file than
> Blade and still sound better.
This is true depending on what you were doing with Blade. What John Q. Clueless knows of as an mp3 is what he usually gets off of Napster, which is 128kbps and generally encoded with Fraunhofer or Xing's encoders (even worse because it's so abysmally bad and it's in used in so many Windows CD ripping/mp3 encoding utilities). Lameenc VBR-encoded mp3s will be larger than them (once again a shameless plug for the site you should live, learn, love: http://www.r3mix.net/.)
If you were encoding with Blade at a static rate of 256kbps, then the odds are in favor of a lameenc VBR-encoded mp3 being smaller. Not always, because there is always the chance that the mp3 will require an unusually large number of blocks >256kbps, but it's still possible.
Spectral and waveform analysis and such has all been done before, and LAME has been known to be superior for quite some time. I've been singing the praises of this site for at least six months.
If you like Contra, you'll love The Minibosses. Among other classic NES games, they did a cover of the music from the first three levels of Contra, and it's probably the best thing they've done--it's amazing how well it translated to hard rock.