I encode my own mp3's and as ashamed as I am of it, yes, I do use a windows product. I will have to look into getting a good Linux encoder. As for the bitrate I set it at the highest variable bitrate. The bitrate changes during the song, but it mainly stays between 160bps and 260bps. I have listened and compared this with my cd player that is for my stereo and the quality difference is barely noticable.
I run a sound blaster 128, not the best sound card but still its a fairly good card. I havent noticed very much RF interference except in my cd rom and tv connections but I keep those muted. And about the fan, I installed a fan that was hell to install and since it is a 35 cfm fan I installed a switch for it so that I could turn off the noise maker for things like this... even though ya cant hear it when I have my stereo cranked up.
People talk about mp3 being so low of a quality, but I think that the quality isnt too bad... and I have my computer hooked up to my stereo which is fairly high quality. What I use to make my mp3's the best quality is audio catalyst with the bitrate set to variable at the highest quality and use stereo, none of the joint stereo crap. It comes out pretty good with almost no difference from the cd itself.
I heard that Micro$sft bought Sega and that the Dreamcast would almost be a PC. It wouldn't make much sense to do that. I don't know if this is true or not though because it was just people talking about it in a games store.
Here is a good flame thrower idea... I just never got the guts to try it out. Ya know those paint guns for use with air compressors... the kind that shoot out a mist with air. Just think about gas comming out of that... air and gas comming out at the same time. At 100psi I have shot 15 foot mists of paint out of that thing. Now that would be a nice flame thrower!
A while back I heard that the speed of light does not necessarily have to be constant. I havent run across any thing other than that though. I also heard that instead of the speed of light being 186,000 miles per second it has slowed to below 160,000 miles per second. Does this mean that light COULD move faster somewhere out in space than it has ever been observed here on earth?
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I encode my own mp3's and as ashamed as I am of it, yes, I do use a windows product. I will have to look into getting a good Linux encoder. As for the bitrate I set it at the highest variable bitrate. The bitrate changes during the song, but it mainly stays between 160bps and 260bps. I have listened and compared this with my cd player that is for my stereo and the quality difference is barely noticable.
I run a sound blaster 128, not the best sound card but still its a fairly good card. I havent noticed very much RF interference except in my cd rom and tv connections but I keep those muted. And about the fan, I installed a fan that was hell to install and since it is a 35 cfm fan I installed a switch for it so that I could turn off the noise maker for things like this... even though ya cant hear it when I have my stereo cranked up.
People talk about mp3 being so low of a quality, but I think that the quality isnt too bad... and I have my computer hooked up to my stereo which is fairly high quality. What I use to make my mp3's the best quality is audio catalyst with the bitrate set to variable at the highest quality and use stereo, none of the joint stereo crap. It comes out pretty good with almost no difference from the cd itself.
I heard that Micro$sft bought Sega and that the Dreamcast would almost be a PC. It wouldn't make much sense to do that. I don't know if this is true or not though because it was just people talking about it in a games store.
Gonna have to turn mine on and check it out... I wanna see what happens.
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Here is a good flame thrower idea... I just never got the guts to try it out. Ya know those paint guns for use with air compressors... the kind that shoot out a mist with air. Just think about gas comming out of that... air and gas comming out at the same time. At 100psi I have shot 15 foot mists of paint out of that thing. Now that would be a nice flame thrower!
A while back I heard that the speed of light does not necessarily have to be constant. I havent run across any thing other than that though. I also heard that instead of the speed of light being 186,000 miles per second it has slowed to below 160,000 miles per second. Does this mean that light COULD move faster somewhere out in space than it has ever been observed here on earth?
One step closer to communism. Trying to regulate what we can see and learn, dont want us to learn anything that might harm them... oh no.
This thing sounds pretty cool... can't wait until I can check out /. from the wheel of my truck though. That would be pretty sweet.
I wonder how fast one of these babies can run when fully overclocked.
It might stop Average Joe for a little while but by that time there will be many mp3 rippers/encoders comming out to make this new format into mp3'z.