On Sunday 25 May 2003 11:16 am, The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Sunday 25 May 2003 6:42 pm, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
Please don't take this as an insult, but BladeEnc is known to produce poor quality Mp3's.
None taken :)
Which encoder would you suggest I switch to? I am using SuSE 8.1 :)
LAME is the only descent mp3 encoder. I find it superior. And I have also found the grip is good for ripping and encoding at the same time. It seems to lack quality if you just rip to wave. I did this with a my Steve Vai cd. With wave it seems to skip, and/or stutter. But I put the cd back in and was going to rip again and encode. Nice thing is that it puts things in its own dir and it read the cd, match to the directory of the .wav files and straight encoded them - fairly fast. The sound of Vai's music is much better now that it's been converted to mp3. On the issue of ArtSD input abilities I have to agree however that ArtSD is horrible on the input side. I have a midi external keyboard and it won't produce any descent sounds with a straight line in, and forget get about using it via midi - it won't trigger any sounds what so ever. You can get lame here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/ I used checkinstall to make it rpm and put it the rpmdata base. I highly recommend it. Cheers, Curtis.