David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:
"Kurt Albershardt" wrote in message ...

At first, due to my lack of experience, I was afraid to encode at 16Khz,
believing that I would not be making a universally compatible MP3, since
this was considered MPEG-2.

Almost all players these days can handle pretty much any regular MP3
coding scheme. Watch out for mp3Pro (sounds better on players that
support it, but wastes a little bandwidth getting there.).




I'm personally staying with Win LAME now that I understand a little bit
more. I need a very typical MP3 that can be read by any ordinary player
with the file association in place. I simply can't use the 'player specific'
schemes like REAL or WMA, etc... I will do *nothing* that requires the
end user to download, install and use a specific piece of software.

Agreed, MP3 is the least common denominator nowadays. I still think you
should audition the Fraunhofer encoder.

"Johann Burkard" wrote in message
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Kurt Albershardt wrote:
MP3 (properly called MPEG-1 layer 3) is a standard, at least for
playback. All of them are standards of a sort. None of them are
compatible with each other. All of them come with snarly royalty and
patent issues attached.

With the exception of Ogg Vorbis of course.

I wouldn't assume that unless some court has declared it to be true.

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Mastering, Audio for Picture, Mix Evaluation and Quality Control
Over 40 years making people sound better than they ever imagined!
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"Bob Olhsson" wrote in message
...
"Johann Burkard" wrote in message
...
Kurt Albershardt wrote:
MP3 (properly called MPEG-1 layer 3) is a standard, at least for
playback. All of them are standards of a sort. None of them are
compatible with each other. All of them come with snarly royalty and
patent issues attached.

With the exception of Ogg Vorbis of course.

I wouldn't assume that unless some court has declared it to be true.

Ahhh, but the court of clowns has...

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:28:24 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
wrote:

My friend with the Nero package gets a fairly smooth sounding
stereo MP3 at 20kbps !!

That's the second time you've praised Nero.

Get the 30 day free demo. Buy the serial number for $80.00 if it
works for you.

Every few months there is a new enough version up to get another free
demo.

www.nero.com

Mark

"Mark Stebbeds" wrote in message ...
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:28:24 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
wrote:

My friend with the Nero package gets a fairly smooth sounding
stereo MP3 at 20kbps !!

That's the second time you've praised Nero.

Get the 30 day free demo. Buy the serial number for $80.00 if it
works for you.

Every few months there is a new enough version up to get another free
demo.

www.nero.com

Mark

What has put me totally off on this is the fact that it installs too much
unecessary gobbledygook. I don't need another 'sound recorder', I don't
need another 'audio editing suite', yadda, yadda... It's editing function
is terribly un user friendly. For example, you can't mark a beginning and
end for a cut because every time you put the cursor down, you lose the
first mark, so the only way to 'capture' a region of audio is to drag select
in a single swoop and hope you're near an acceptable crossing point at
the beginning and end of the section of audio. If you try to check it, the
selected region disappears.

I watched him work with his version of Nero and tried a few things that
I'd grown accustomed to in Sound Forge, which simply weren't do-able
in Nero. The tools, compressors, etc., seem to be little more than shots
in the dark. Perhaps I am underestimating it, but I have plenty of audio
tools of better functionality.

The only thing I am in search of is an MP3 encoder capable of getting
an acceptably smooth sounding playback of low baud rates. ( 40kbps)

DM

"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote

The only thing I am in search of is an MP3 encoder capable of getting
an acceptably smooth sounding playback of low baud rates. ( 40kbps)

In that case Nero is not for you.

I personally prefer Nero over any other program to burn CD's and I just
ignore the other programs. I turn them off in the startup section and make
sure there is nothing in the background.

Julian

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Bye-bye, troll. Into the killfile you go. Plonk.

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Brendan Doyle

David Morgan (MAMS) wrote:
"Mark Stebbeds" wrote in message ...

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:28:24 GMT, "David Morgan \(MAMS\)"
wrote:


My friend with the Nero package gets a fairly smooth sounding
stereo MP3 at 20kbps !!

That's the second time you've praised Nero.

Get the 30 day free demo. Buy the serial number for $80.00 if it
works for you.

Every few months there is a new enough version up to get another free
demo.


What has put me totally off on this is the fact that it installs too much
unecessary gobbledygook. I don't need another 'sound recorder', I don't
need another 'audio editing suite', yadda, yadda... It's editing function
is terribly un user friendly. For example, you can't mark a beginning and
end for a cut because every time you put the cursor down, you lose the
first mark, so the only way to 'capture' a region of audio is to drag select
in a single swoop and hope you're near an acceptable crossing point at
the beginning and end of the section of audio. If you try to check it, the
selected region disappears.

I watched him work with his version of Nero and tried a few things that
I'd grown accustomed to in Sound Forge, which simply weren't do-able
in Nero. The tools, compressors, etc., seem to be little more than shots
in the dark. Perhaps I am underestimating it, but I have plenty of audio
tools of better functionality.


So just install the first package and buy the mp3PRO plugin as I
suggested. Fuhgeddabout the other junk.





The only thing I am in search of is an MP3 encoder capable of getting
an acceptably smooth sounding playback of low baud rates. ( 40kbps)

Fraunhofer, available many places including Nero.

Brendan Doyle wrote in news:bd-
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In article ,
The Ghost wrote:

assorted bilious outbursts snipped

Bye-bye, troll. Into the killfile you go. Plonk.


Ad hominem remarks and the kill file appear to be the preferred means that
intellectually-challenged cowards like yourself use to run away from a
confrontation with the truth.