[access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi and bit rates
- From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 23:53:28 +0100
There's a settings menu in SoundTaxi which lets you change the conversion
methods and bit rates. I get to it by routing the Jaws to the pc cursor and
arrowing around till Jaws says 'settings'. I press the left click button on
my numpad twice and I'm in there. Then I can revert to pc cursor mode and
use the tab key and cursor keys to set bit rates etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Andy Collins
Sent: 23 May 2008 23:13
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi and bit rates
Hi Kevin -
Thanks, I understand this, and wasn't wanting to convert to a higher bit
rate, like you say, that would be pointless, I just don't want to convert to
a lower bit rate, so if I begin with a file that is a 192 WMA formatted
file, and convert it to mp3, I still want to keep the same 192 bit rate,
where as at the moment, Sound Taxi is converting it to a 140 variable bit
rate, thus I believe, reducing the sound quality? -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Lloyd" <kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 8:24 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi and bit rates
| Hi Andy.
|
| I don't use SoundTaxi but would advise you not to choose a higher bit rate
| than the bit rate you're converting from. Once a track has been ripped at
| 192kbps, converting it to a higher bit rate will only make the file size
| larger, it won't improve the quality at all.
|
| It really depends on how much you value sound quality with conversions
from
| one format to another, it's not really advised. If you consider that WMA
| uses an algorithm to calculate what it believes can be thrown away to make
a
| smaller file, and, MP3 uses a similar but different algorithm, you end up
| with a loss in quality because you've thrown away some of the sound that
the
| first rip in WMA believed was necessary.
|
| A track with variable bit rate of 140kbps is not going to sound as good as
| the same track ripped at 192kbps.
|
| Personally, for listening to music through my hi-fi system, I have my
| collection ripped in a lossless format so no music quality is lost. Files
| are large but hard drives are cheap and quieter now so no worries there.
|
| For portable use I rip everything into MP3 format with a variable bit rate
| between a minimum of 128kbps and 320kbps. Most tracks come out around the
| 256kbps mark so that sort of tells you what the algorithm thinks it needs
| for high quality MP3.
|
| Regards.
|
| Kevin Lloyd
| E-mail: kevin.lloyd3@xxxxxxx
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:15 PM
| Subject: [access-uk] Sound Taxi and bit rates
|
|
| > Hi all -
| >
| > I've now got Sound Taxi, and Windows Media Player properly installed
| > hurrah!
| > but I can't see how to select a bit rate when converting from WMA to MP3
| > with Sound Taxi. The WMA file is 192kbps, and it converts to 140
variable
| > bit, joint stereo in Sound Taxi. Firstly, I don't really know what
| > variable
| > bit rate is comparable in quality to 192, but also, can these settings
be
| > changed in Sound taxi to produce a 192 or higher mp3 file?
| >
| > Thanks -
| >
| > Andy
| >
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