[bookshare-discuss] Re: [other] Re: OT. Oldtime Radio site free for blind individuals
- From: "boomerdad" <boomerdad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 19:09:10 -0700
After hearing OTR on CD from the sites you listed ... well, one of them
anyway ... I still maintain that the same standard of quality could be
maintained on MP3 ... but not while putting anywhere near 50-100 shows on a
single disk. I'm talking between nine and twelve shows. If you take a
great-quality show and encode it in the MP3 format at 160kbps or more and
using a sampling rate of 44,100, there's little to no difference in quality.
Having said that, I emphasize the show must be of good quality before the
encoding. A poorly-recorded show can only be maintained or worsened by MP3
compression.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Baechler" <bookshare@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 11:51 PM
Subject: [other] [bookshare-discuss] Re: OT. Oldtime Radio site free for
blind individuals
> Hi. Naturally, you are going to be limited by cassettes in terms of
> quality. I will say that even cassettes are generally much better quality
> than mp3 though. You should try listening to OTR on CD. It really sounds
> amazing if it has been restored with care. If you want to send me your
> mailing address off list, I can send you a couple of restored CDs for your
> comparison. Also, the closer they are to first generation, the better.
> It
> amazes me that people would throw away such good quality by the high
> compression used for mp3.
>
> At 11:52 PM 4/30/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>>A couple of years ago my kids gave us a collection or
>>Old Time Radio audio cassettes. We played them on the
>>tape player in the car; the quality was o.k. It
>>brought back memories, since I used to listen to those
>>programs growing up.
>
>
>
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