Re: More thoughts on "Organic Acid" CD

[mikael.jakonen@mailbox.swipnet.se (Mikael Jakonen)]

kritzber@ucsub.Colorado.EDU (Blake Kritzberg) writes:

>In article <341e80ff.498391639@aksv01>,
>pDaleCampbell <pdCampbell@goodyear.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is it out of the question to distribute any of this material via WAV
>>files (or another format w/ better compression)?
>
>I don't have the CD, but I could digitize and throw up on 
>a server in RealAudio format, if anyone's interested --
>the quality's not too wonderful, but it would be
>easy and free....

These days there are even better formats than RealAudio.
Mpeg2 offers a 12-to-1 compression with close-to-CD quality.
There are several MP2-encoders available on the net, though
I myself have never tested any of them. (They're for 
Virus-95, eh, I mean Windows-95. I am proud to announce 
that I have NEVER had W-95 on my computer, and I never will.
It's a principle. I hate Microsoft for their sloppy work and
false marketing)

As I said: I've never tested it, but a friend at work says
that the loss of quality at 12-to-1 is virtually undetectable.

Sampling a CD with 16 bit at 44kHz (CD quality sampling
with SoundBlaster Wave Studio) makes a Wav-file about 
10 MB per minute.

If we're prepared to accept a minimum of quality-loss on 
the way, we could have a 5min song packed into just a few Mb. 
Isn't it worth investigating?


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