Another weak link in MP3 creation is the drive used for ripping from the CD. As a general rule, SCSI CD-ROM and CD-R drives are better for CD ripping than IDE drives. My SAF CD-R 4012 (SCSI, xcdroast reports it as a TEAC mechanism) and SB32 PNP do quite well. I have the sound card as far away from the power supply as possible, and get very little noise except at extreme, blow-your-eardums-to-bits volume levels. At listenable volume, I don't notice any noise, even with high-quality headphones.
For a Linux encoder, I'd recommend either Xing ($20) or LAME ($0).
Xing is by far the fastest software encoder out there... and the current 1.5 version doesn't cut out >16 kHz frequencies unless you tell it to. I generally use -V 100, giving me a VBR file that generally averages about 192 kbps.
LAME isn't as fast, but it works quite well (and it can use pipes for input and output).
Perhaps a Hall of Shame for the egregious trolls and abusers would be a good thing to have. It sucks when moderator points are wasted on someone posting 300+ lines of repetitive crap... List accounts where applicable, IP addresses for AC's?
I beta-tested Xing for Linux, and it's far faster than anything else out there. My tests on a K6/300, encoding a 4:58 stereo 44.1 kHz file at 128 kbps:
I haven't re-timed it with the production version, but it should be as fast or faster.
As far as speed goes, there is simply no comparison. Its quality is quite good, too - and VBR encoding can give you better quality for the same file size.
On the downside, it won't do stream encoding with pipes, so it's useless with liveice. In my opinion, that was intentional (they don't want to kill sales of StreamWorks). If you need pipes, use LAME.
My brand-spanking-new copy of SuSE 6.1 includes DB2 (beta version), along with Sybase ASE (full version), Informix (developer license), and ADABAS-D (Personal Edition). It also has MySQL and PostgreSQL packages just to round things out...
As long as they release their products under GPL, I have absolutely no gripe with Red Hat. It's a shame that some people equate Red Hat with Micros~1 - there's just no comparison between the two. Yes, Red Hat is the most visible, but, IMHO, they have done a good job of packaging their product. Don't like it? You can use Debian, Caldera, SuSE, TurboLinux, Slackware... or, if you're really sick of Distro Wars, switch to one of the BSD's.:-)
Oops... then it becomes FreeBSD vs. NetBSD vs. OpenBSD, etc.:-):-)
The main problem I see regarding whether closed-source package X runs on distro Y is library versions. What can we do to fix this? Static linking sucks from a bloat point of view.
PIP was older than CP/M - it originated with DEC's RT-11 operating system for the PDP-11 (and might be even older). It was also found on RSTS/E, which had RT-11 and RSX run-time systems in addition to its native BASIC-PLUS. Indeed, much of CP/M's overall look and feel were lifted from the early DEC systems...
Perhaps a more ironic way to for us to get back is to mount a campaign to get the word 'Kipling' brought into general use as a euphemism for something - perhaps some foul sexual act:
It's already been done... many years ago. A card with a boy asking a girl, "Do you like Kipling?" Her reply: "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled!"
* SIGBUS can't remember where he saw it, but it was in print somewhere...
If my bank starts doing this, I'll tell them to go to hell. Is it just me, or has Big Business really decided flat-out that us peons should not have any right to privacy?
On the other hand, there is a town in central Illinois (I forget the name), that has a McDonald's Restaurant that was in business before the hamburger chain, and sucessfully brushed back the megacorp's lawsuit...
Yeah, it's really a page about the spud gun. But spud guns are for wimps. Check out the Punkin' Chunkin' contest for the ultimate in vegetable projectiles.
Nice to see the tidbit about open-source software... but it's even nicer to see the general aviation industry make a comeback. Of course, it's not necessarily Linux - they could easily use FreeBSD or eCos for that matter.
Gee, I wonder why?:*) [russ@jake movies]$ telnet craig.rgare.com 80 Trying 208.231.186.14... Connected to craig.rgare.com. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQGGGQGDE=HLCHGKBBLJJLHOEDMDOOPDLD; path=/ Cache-control: private Date: SAT, 02 JAN 1999 21:03:15 GMT Connection: close
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Another weak link in MP3 creation is the drive used for ripping from the CD. As a general rule, SCSI CD-ROM and CD-R drives are better for CD ripping than IDE drives. My SAF CD-R 4012 (SCSI, xcdroast reports it as a TEAC mechanism) and SB32 PNP do quite well. I have the sound card as far away from the power supply as possible, and get very little noise except at extreme, blow-your-eardums-to-bits volume levels. At listenable volume, I don't notice any noise, even with high-quality headphones.
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Xing is by far the fastest software encoder out there... and the current 1.5 version doesn't cut out >16 kHz frequencies unless you tell it to. I generally use -V 100, giving me a VBR file that generally averages about 192 kbps.
LAME isn't as fast, but it works quite well (and it can use pipes for input and output).
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Perhaps a Hall of Shame for the egregious trolls and abusers would be a good thing to have.
It sucks when moderator points are wasted on someone posting 300+ lines of repetitive crap...
List accounts where applicable, IP addresses for AC's?
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Will these new Celerons have the processor serial number burned-in?
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I've had no problems with recent versions of x11amp/xmms, mpg123, or freeamp, even when using VBR.
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Specifically, with the production version 1.5 encoder, the -N option cuts out frequencies greather than 16 kHz. THAT IS NOT THE DEFAULT.
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BladeEnc 0.76 - 12:00
LAME 2.1f - 8:17
Xing 1.5 Beta1 - 2:32
I haven't re-timed it with the production version, but it should be as fast or faster.
As far as speed goes, there is simply no comparison. Its quality is quite good, too - and VBR encoding can give you better quality for the same file size.
On the downside, it won't do stream encoding with pipes, so it's useless with liveice. In my opinion, that was intentional (they don't want to kill sales of StreamWorks). If you need pipes, use LAME.
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Just where can mere mortals find a low-cost encoder, or, for that matter, a Linux player?
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Perl modules are not hard to install...
$ perl Makefile.pm
$ make
$ make install
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My brand-spanking-new copy of SuSE 6.1 includes DB2 (beta version), along with Sybase ASE (full version), Informix (developer license), and ADABAS-D (Personal Edition). It also has MySQL and PostgreSQL packages just to round things out...
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X11Amp uses the mpg123 decoding engine - Tomislav can't do a thing about it.
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Oops... then it becomes FreeBSD vs. NetBSD vs. OpenBSD, etc. :-) :-)
The main problem I see regarding whether closed-source package X runs on distro Y is library versions. What can we do to fix this? Static linking sucks from a bloat point of view.
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Press 1 for earthworms. Press 2 for minnows. Press 3 for stinkbait.
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I also have a few tracks that i've paid for via GoodNoise.
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It's already been done... many years ago. A card with a boy asking a girl, "Do you like Kipling?" Her reply: "I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled!"
* SIGBUS can't remember where he saw it, but it was in print somewhere...
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If my bank starts doing this, I'll tell them to go to hell. Is it just me, or has Big Business really decided flat-out that us peons should not have any right to privacy?
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On the other hand, there is a town in central Illinois (I forget the name), that has a McDonald's Restaurant that was in business before the hamburger chain, and sucessfully brushed back the megacorp's lawsuit...
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Yeah, it's really a page about the spud gun. But spud guns are for wimps. Check out the Punkin' Chunkin' contest for the ultimate in vegetable projectiles.
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Nice to see the tidbit about open-source software... but it's even nicer to see the general aviation industry make a comeback. Of course, it's not necessarily Linux - they could easily use FreeBSD or eCos for that matter.
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Gee, I wonder why? :*)
[russ@jake movies]$ telnet craig.rgare.com 80
Trying 208.231.186.14...
Connected to craig.rgare.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQGGGQGDE=HLCHGKBBLJJLHOEDMDOOPDLD; path=/
Cache-control: private
Date: SAT, 02 JAN 1999 21:03:15 GMT
Connection: close
Connection closed by foreign host.
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