techy. May I borrow your ears?

[thebarguest]

I must admit, I thought the recent show offerings from
Kevin Beech (& Julian) and Andthezmore, coded in 128/44 mp3,
sounded fine, as good as an FM radio broadcast.

More importantly, I wonder whether some of my dvdrs will get
corrupted in the same way some of my 4-year-old cdrs have....
Maybe the dye starts to "leak" in time ; how could the scientists
simulate ageing when developing a recording medium ?
Don't throw away your original tapes !



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Riving Ton <deedeeramain@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
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> ----- 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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