16 Jul
2008
16 Jul
'08
10:48 a.m.
P.S. The folly of storing cassette data in MP3 format has been discussed
here in detail before.
DON'T DO IT.
Use WAV only.
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16 Jul
16 Jul
11:25 a.m.
P.S. The folly of storing cassette data in MP3 format
has been discussed
here in detail before.
DON'T DO IT.
Use WAV only.
Actually, I like AIFF since it's guaranteed to be non compressed (instead
of AIFC). WAV could have compression too thanks to Microsoft extending
the format to be a generic audio container.
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11:30 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Is it possible to use FLAC? It's lossless, after all.
Peace... Sridhar
P.S. The folly
of storing cassette data in MP3 format has been discussed
here in detail before.
DON'T DO IT.
Use WAV only.
Actually, I like AIFF since it's guaranteed to be non compressed (instead
of AIFC). WAV could have compression too thanks to Microsoft extending
the format to be a generic audio container. 
12:37 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
The solution to that is FLAC. Losslessly compressed, open source decoder.
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P.S. The folly
of storing cassette data in MP3 format has been discussed
here in detail before.
DON'T DO IT.
Use WAV only.
Actually, I like AIFF since it's guaranteed to be non compressed (instead
of AIFC). WAV could have compression too thanks to Microsoft extending
the format to be a generic audio container. 
12:10 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
P.S. The folly of storing cassette data in MP3 format
has been discussed
here in detail before.
DON'T DO IT.
Use WAV only.
Yes, I've found that's mostly because if you store your synthesizer
patch dumps as .mp3 files, rhythmbox will promptly index them next time
you start it up. Then you just need shuffle play and...
Gordon
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