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Subject:Removing MP3 Save Options Posted by: LarryAW Date:5/18/2003 4:57:17 PM To protect me from myself, is there any way to remove 64Kbps and 96Kbps options from appearing when saving MP3 files. I am never going to use them. I take a lot of medications (including narcotics) that allow me to play my synths in the first place, and I don't want to "zone out" and mistakenly save a masterpiece (;-) (it's only a masterpiece to me) at 64 Kbps. I've read the manual and Sound Forge 6 Power, and haven't found the answer, but considering all of the meds I'm taking, I'm lucky to still be able to read. Hell, maybe I found the answer and didn't know it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Larry
Subject:RE: Removing MP3 Save Options Reply by: Chienworks Date:5/19/2003 7:14:12 AM You should always be saving to an uncompressed .WAV format or at least to a PCA file as well as to MP3 anyway. That way if you discover later on that you used the wrong bitrate you sitll have a lossless version to re-encode from.
Subject:RE: Removing MP3 Save Options Reply by: LarryAW Date:5/19/2003 11:39:29 AM You are right and I am going to do do that for my compositions. It's fairly obvious when you think about it. I guess I shouldn't have said masterpieces. All of the of the songs I have thus far I have in both .wav and mp3 format. Right now, I am saving in MP3 because I am experimenting with different KARMA combinations (multi's) and other synths/sound modules with all of the effects I have. I have a ton of effects, and there are a lot of them that I am never going to use. It will more efficient for me when I have removed all of those effects that are just taking up space. Thanks for the quick response. Since I do have a lot of disk space, maybe I will just save in .wav format for everything, no matter what the recordings are for. A lot of them would be deleted fairly quickly anyway. Larry
Subject:RE: Removing MP3 Save Options Reply by: keether Date:5/19/2003 1:48:56 PM Did I miss something back there a ways? Are you saying that mp3 is "lossy" on a continual basis? Or just that it represents less of the sound than .wav? I've seen degradation in JPEG images through multiple re-edits. Does that same process take place with mp3 files?
Subject:RE: Removing MP3 Save Options Reply by: Chienworks Date:5/19/2003 3:05:32 PM Keether: yes, MP3 is a lossy format. It is pretty much the audio analog of JPEG for images (MP3 is to WAV as JPEG is to BMP). Lower bitrates result in more compression and loss of more information. It should be considered a final destination format rather than a work in progress format.
Subject:RE: Removing MP3 Save Options Reply by: keether Date:5/20/2003 1:24:44 PM Thank you, C! I did not know that nor even suspect it.

Subject:Removing MP3 Save Options

Posted by: LarryAW

Date:5/18/2003 4:57:17 PM

To protect me from myself, is there any way to remove 64Kbps and 96Kbps options from appearing when saving MP3 files. I am never going to use them. I take a lot of medications (including narcotics) that allow me to play my synths in the first place, and I don't want to "zone out" and mistakenly save a masterpiece (;-) (it's only a masterpiece to me) at 64 Kbps. I've read the manual and Sound Forge 6 Power, and haven't found the answer, but considering all of the meds I'm taking, I'm lucky to still be able to read. Hell, maybe I found the answer and didn't know it.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Larry