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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
Well are you burning CDs and converting to MP3?
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Burning CDs happens rarely here. I did some experiments this night, though.
First, i learned from reading some more info that kbit/s in MP3 and OGG Vorbis do not compare, the OGG files reach a higher sound quality with lower sampling rates, so when you use lets say 256 for MP3, you do not need a setting for OGG that matches that value, but you can use a much lower sampling rate to acchieve the same quality result, usually they recommend settings between 5 and 7 on the OGG slider for reaching a transparency that can no longer be differentiated by most listeners from life CD. I have adopted to a setting of 6, which is around 200 kbit/s, when I tested with samples in the range of settings between 3 and 8. In MP3, I can realise the difference from 128 to 196. Going even higher to 256 is where it looses me. I tested that with burnt tracks from CD in my HiFi, via headphone (a good headphone, I mean).
And if 8Gb is not enough to save my wanted CD collection, which will be a mixture of Jazz, Classic, Pop and some moderate Rock, I almost missed the option to put another micro SD card in and have more CDs as well. so memory should not become a problem at all.
I also decided to invest into a slightly more expensive inear set than I originally planned. I found a reasonable deal for the Philips SH9850, which got very good reviews especially for it's sound characteristics. With 65 euros it is in the middle segment of prices. Spending up to 250 euros for such things was not within my financial reach.
I'm really enjoying the perspective of spending some hours in the green or by the river in the coming days and hopefully: weeks, - in past weeks I have repeatedly thought when being there and reading a book that it would be nice now to have this or that CD available.
Just the organisation of tracks and readying them for synchronisation via demanded Media Player 10/11 drove me crazy a bit. That software simply does not arrange the tracks the way I want it, copies them in doublettes although they are correctly tagged, and so on. The audiograbber arranges the grabbed tracks in in album-related folders which do not seem to get recognised by WMP. And WinAmp -I'm a burnt child, two or three years ago I tried it, and it ended with a seriously damaged installation and my firewall running amok - I reinstalled short time later. Maybe I picked a monday download, but the memory is still haunting me.