[peel] re: techy. May I borrow your ears?

[Riving Ton]

Hi Adam!

We had a similar thread about compression a short while ago and I think we decided that FLAC was the ultimate compression format as it was lossless.

Personally - I use .ogg but I realise that it is getting kind of redundant because nobody else finds it convenient plus - I use dbpoweramp also and some of my ripped CDs don't sound right - the bass on some of my files is muffled and really poor quality. 

Finally, memory is getting cheaper and cheaper so compression is becoming less necessary as time goes by. I can see a short time ahead in future that I'll want to just copy my CDs directly to a storage medium without any compression.

I normally buy hard drives in twos - one is a backup of the other. Hard drives fail and new hard drives are no exception so I'd be gutted if I spent lots of time ripping my CDs to hard drive to have the hard drive fail after a couple of months. (This happened to me with a 120GB pocket drive. The clicking noise signalled a failed disk that would cost around a grand if I wanted to recover my data!).
Don't forget that DVDs are not indestructible also!

Regards,

DeeDee

 



----- Original Message ----
From: lollygagger <lollygagger@...>
To: peel@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:55:19 PM
Subject: [peel] re: techy. May I borrow your ears?

Hi All
 
May I borrow your ears?
 
I'm back to archiving my Peely & assorted tapes to hard drive and dvd's  (4 c90's to a dvd) 
 
Its going to be about 130 dvd's and two large hard drives before I have finished but I am looking to make a back up archive copy I can leave with a family member.
 
I have been looking at compression encoders to bring my music data to 1:4 so that my entire collection can be copied to 30 dvd's. Flac gives a ratio of 1:2. WMA and MP3 at 320kbs appear to lose the original dynamic sound.
 
I have personally found that by using the dbpoweramp prog with OGG at 350kbs giving the 1:4 that there doesn't appear to be any difference from the original.
 
Can anyone else confirm that OGG gives the best performance for compressed music?
 
Your ears and opinions would be useful (Keeping in mind that OGG would be used as an archived copy and not for a typical player)
 
Adam
 
 
 
 
 


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