[access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi and bit rates
- From: "Andy Collins" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 16:54:01 +0100
Thanks - I've been able to do this now; you know how it is with JFW's
cursor, it doesn't always *see* everything! -
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sunil" <bosley20@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 11:53 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Sound Taxi and bit rates
| 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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