File Formats

[thebarguest]

Totally agree on 128/44. Can't see the point of anything greater for
AM (medium wave) recordings ; its like storing a pint of ale
in a gallon flagon !

Just listening to Bill's first 400Box conversion/remaster -
even though its AM its "good" AM and could almost be FM apart 
from the "frequency drift", which is thankfully not as frequent
as it could be ! The taper seems to have tuned in the radio OK
- maybe his FM reception was too bad or non-existent (only an idiot
or "backward" chap would choose AM over good FM) .........

Thanks to everyone who's uploaded recently !!

Wow, he's just put on "She Brings the Rain" off "Cannibalism" by Can.
I bought that at the time - great blue cover with "android" head
and sleeve notes by Pete Shelley........





--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" 
<billfromnorthwales@...> wrote:
>
> Well then, if you have heard from quality of the tapes digitised 
thus 
> far, we might say that 128kbs should be fine for non lossless 
> distribution?
> 
> 
>  --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Ed Powley <zen30378@> wrote:
> >
> > Martin Wheatley wrote:
> > > You can do mono mp3s but it doesn't affect the filesize
> > 
> > Not directly, but you can encode a mono mp3 at a lower bitrate 
than a 
> > stereo mp3 and get the same sound quality. A file encoded in mono 
> mode 
> > at 96kbps should sound as good as a file in stereo mode at 
192kbps. 
> > That's an over-simplification if you start getting into things 
like 
> > joint-stereo encoding, but you get the general idea.
> > 
> > Ed
> >
>