Thread: mp3 conversions!!!

this is the first time i've seen this on an oldskool site well done to you all as i have a lot of sets i would like to mp3 and file share and i didn't know how to do this before mind you i'll need to get a soundcard and that first!!! i wasn't really clued up about it but everyone shares advise on here which is brilliant good to see everyone helping each other!!!

Heya Vale Rez Crew! www.mediafire.com is a great place to start with when it comes to file-sharing. Free to set up an account too. Seems like it's used by a lot of people on here. www.megaupload.com is another popular file sharing site too. I use my laptop, a belt drive turntable and Kam mixer for ripping my vinyl. Also use Audacity for copying vinyl and Sound Switch File Convertor for turning my WAV files into MP3's. Hope this info helps you starting out!

www.divshare.com is more reliable than mediafire (which a few of us can't seem to upload to without it crashing out).

MP3 is not the way forward, it's no about destroying music quality. If ur gonna go the way of mp3 at least rip at 320

Originally Posted by davetherave

MP3 is not the way forward, it's no about destroying music quality. If ur gonna go the way of mp3 at least rip at 320

nonsense ... 320 was the best before V0 VBR came along ... it is without doubt the best natural quality MP3 ya can rip from a FLAC, WAV, or CD

Originally Posted by oothefuxthat

nonsense ... 320 was the best before V0 VBR came along ... it is without doubt the best natural quality MP3 ya can rip from a FLAC, WAV, or CD

So you disagree with the fact that people should try to rip as good a copy as possible. Joe Bloggs doesn't know about new formats etc, they just want to fit as many tunes as possible on there iPod. I hope most people can understand what I was saying, if they are going to rip from an original source as an mp3 please try to go for at least 320. Obviously there are plenty of other formats, if you read what I said properly instead of looking for an argument you would see that I said "IF ur gonna go the way of mp3" meaning IF, which means if out of all the formats that's the one you choose.

If you look around there are plenty of oldskol tunes ripped, some are barely 1mb, they are very poor rips. Even some of the better quality ripped tunes aren't what they could be if you compare them to the original source. Alot of my mates are top producers, alot of whom most of you all look up to and what this site is about. They can tell when someone is playing a poorly ripped track, and you can't play a standard mp3 at a low rate, when you start going below 320 or so on a loud system there is a difference.

We are all watching HD tv on Hi res sets, and we have stepped back with audio. Instead of playing vinyl people are playing compressed versions of tracks. We should be trying to preserve audio as best we can, and the reason is becuase people are not educated, so all that Jargan you spoke about means nothing, as it's the people who are not as educated as you who ripped the tunes at such a lo res. And once someone has ripped there collection and possibly sold it on, thats it, theres a saying you can't polish a turd. There's plenty of quality formated tunes out there which are just lo res tracks converted to a higher setting, but that won't help as you can't put back what isn't there you can just take away.

So peeps if possible acc or aac I forget the correct way. Wav/aiff quality is what tracks should be ripped as, you can make a more compressed copy if you wish. There are so many formatts out there, all have pros and cons. You have to remember some tracks were only pressed up for 100 copies after that theregone, so someone out there might read this and maybe the only person with a decent copy who can be bothered to rip it, so it's good that they know that they should alter the ripping settings for quality. As mp3 players have been marketed so peopel are geared towards cramming as many tracks on there ipods as possible. And that's how the general public think, the smaller the file size the better.

All I know is there are tracks that Im desperate for and all I can find are crappy ripped versions. I wish I'd never sold my collection now, but there you go. I blame mp3s and the way the format has been marketed for the masses of poorly ripped rare tracks. There's also the quality of the actual rip not just the setting of the ripped format but I think I have gone on enough.

i absolutely agree on best quality .... is why i have 100's of albums in 100% FLAC on my PC ... all i was trying so say is that your, and other peepz here, insistence on 320kbs for MP3's is, perhaps, a (modern day) uneducated view ... the absolute best quality MP3 is, without doubt these days, V0 VBR ... without getting to technical here, it's all to do with how silence in tracks is treat ... using the 'old fashioned' 320 settings forces a compression, using 'lame' as the codec and using V0 VBR, highest settings, slowest conversion does give the absolute best results possible as it ignores silence

i aint't trying to pick an argument, i was just making an observation B-)

I'd rather people stay away from mp3 altogether, but thats what I was saying, if you are going to use mp3. I did say if and I was trying to stress if you are going to compress at least do it on high settings. I go by not compressing at all. You can ompress to a point, as the human ear can only notice so much, but if you can just go for as best you can.

Are you sure your not trying to pick an argument. my view is definently not uneducated, I know exactly what I am talking about, you just need to read what I said in the first post. I never said 320 mp3 is the best I just said if you are going to use that format, try not to go below 320.

And it doesn't matter what format you use if the method you use to rip is flawed to start with. If you are getting unwanted feedback or interference etc etc. I'd rather have a 250 mp3 ripped from quality components than a wav from cheap untis and dodgy cables as the set up. You can clean sound up but some of those frequencies might be in the actual audio you want to keep so I'm not totaly at ease with anything that removes so called unwanted sound.

The problem isn't so bad now, but you can tell how bad it was in the past from the amount of dodgy oldskool rips that turn up. I find alot of real media player ones that are really bad, but I hold onto them as it's the only copy I migt ever find and as a reference it's valuable.

I'M GONNA ASSUME YOU JUST MISSREAD, WE BOTH AGREE MUSIC THAT DOESN"T SOUND GOOD IS BAD NEWS>