Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3419 mails)

[David Brodbeck <gull@xxxxxxx>]

Tim Hanson wrote:
> A sliver of hope comes from 
> the ability to burn "purchased" songs to a CD.  I have even seen Windows-only 
> utilities to create a virtual CD (an ISO image, I assume), then rip mp3s from 
> that.
>
> 1)      Is there an available Linux program to do the same thing?
>   

I don't know, but if not, you could always burn to a CD-RW disk and then
rip from it.  That's what I do with my iTunes downloads.  It can't be an
ISO image, because ISO only handles data CDs; it must be some other
image format.

> 2)      I've heard that the journey from the DRM protected content to a CD to 
> mp3 is not a pleasant one musically.  I'm not totally happy with the sampling 
> rate of standard mp3 generally, although I live with it for the convenience 
> of having all those tunes in my shirt pocket and on my hard drive.  I'm not 
> in much of a mood for further degradation from removing the DRM.
>   

I don't have any experience with the service you're using.  My
experience with iTunes downloads has been good, though.  I'm not an
audiophile, but I do care about artifacts, and I haven't noticed that
what I get from iTunes sounds any worse than what I get on CD.  I would
definitely recommend bumping the MP3 sampling rate above the 128 kbps
that most people seem to think is standard, though.  I used a short
music clip to audition various sample rates and encoders and settled on
LAME at 160 kbps as a good compromise for my tastes.

I'm sure someone will jump in now and explain to us why MP3 is evil and
we should use Ogg/Vorbis. ;)
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