Subject:Very Basic Newbie Ques
Posted by: Bugger
Date:11/20/2002 12:52:51 PM
30 Minute MP3 Recording through Line In (Sound Blaster) sounds decent at a bitrate of 64 but when saved at 160 it has distortion and cracks. Any quick fixes??? |
Subject:RE: Very Basic Newbie Ques
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:11/20/2002 1:23:04 PM
Just curious, but are you converting an MP3 file you've already created at 64 into 160? Or are you making a new recording at 160? |
Subject:RE: Very Basic Newbie Ques
Reply by: Bugger
Date:11/20/2002 1:39:19 PM
New recording...made to 64 then saved as 160. Maybe I should try making the first recording to 160??? |
Subject:RE: Very Basic Newbie Ques
Reply by: Chienworks
Date:11/20/2002 3:19:02 PM
Ummm, so it's not a new recording ... you were resaving a 64 recording as 160? Don't. There's absolutely no reason or benefit in doing this; all you'll do is waste drive space. You're taking a marginal quality recording, uncompressing it (which retains all the faults of the compression) and then recompressing it (adding to the faults). Leaving it at 64 will sound better than recompressing to 160. If you want a 160 file, you have to save it this way originally from the source. |
Subject:RE: Very Basic Newbie Ques
Reply by: Geoff_Wood
Date:11/20/2002 10:21:55 PM
More than already said, even with good encoders a 128K mp3 will have audible effects. A 64K one should actually sound 'bad'. However I have heard 160K ones that do sound pretty good. I would also suggest recording at 160K straight off, or if already in 64K rate, leaving as be - further de/encoding with reducing the quality of the 6$K file even if the end result is 160K. geoff |
Subject:RE: Very Basic Newbie Ques
Reply by: Bugger
Date:11/21/2002 7:31:28 AM
Thank you fellas (ladies??) for the replies...your words make sense!!! |