Encoders, Format etc.

[aeberbach]

It's nice to dream and easy to assume others know what you do, but the reality is different. Take someone who is not an IT person, try a doctor or a mechanic, and see if they can compile flac. You won't even get them past installing GCC without having to help. Try it!

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Proprietary file formats are just plain evil. Anybody storing important data in a proprietary file format acts extremely careless and almost certainly will face data loss in due course.

Or you could just use what performs best and not make Open Source part of your personal religion. Works for me.

 

[samiam69]

On Winamp MAD plugin can you run it with a crossfader like sqr. soft's. I have tried but can't get it to work.

 

[MTRH]

@ disturbed
EAC is with no doubts the best AudioExtractor for PC.
Try MPC! it's transparent in it's standardmode.
Use User Defined Encoder, Uncheck Add ID3-tag, in EAC, and add custom command line options:
--quality 5.0 --artist "%a" --title "%t" --album "%g" --year %y --track %n --genre "%m" %s %d
With MPC there should be no need for lossless unless you must use the sample(s) 100% intact.

@ pigmode
"a bit"

Correction: It's a LOT better, subband encoder.

cheers,
David

 

[paulj]

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Originally posted by wilbur Proprietary file formats are just plain evil. Anybody storing important data in a proprietary file format acts extremely careless and almost certainly will face data loss in due course.

That's a riduculous statement!

I take it you store all your cash under your matress then right? Or have you found a bank that runs it's systems on Linux and some open source database... maybe MySQL?

I'm assuming of course that you consider your finances to be 'important data'.

The majority of major corporations all over the world trust their own, their customers and their investors data with 'proprietary' databases. I'm sure they didn't become 'major corporations' by being 'extremely careless'.

 

[disturbed]

Wow where did this come up from?

Anyways I have taken my pick

For now
Lossless: Monkey Audio

Lossy: Ogg Vorbis

I kinda like open source formats.

Thanks GW