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Default Windows Media Player .mp2 files time readout

geoff wrote:
On 15/09/2018 2:22 AM, Bill wrote:
In message ,
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maybe the best thing you could do to help him is find a way for him to
update to record to mp3 instead of mp2 ....or convert the files he has
to mp3.


The native format of the off-air DAB audio is .mp2. He is capturing
these files digitally, so any conversion to another lossy file format
would reduce the audio quality.


Unless storage space at a premium, surely recording and archiving to
Broadcast Wave File would be best , and distributing as MP-whatever if
necessary. But still BWF best for that too.


The DAB workflow was designed so that stuff would get encoded once and then
not have to be re-encoded ever again. At least that was the theory. In the
end, DAB never really took off as much as it was expected and lossy encoding
systems improved dramatically leaving the Eureka-147 people behind.
--scott
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