I've just read several sections of the CdEx Help documentation, and I'd like to show how I set things, one option at a time.
Please comment if I seem to have misunderstood something. My intention is to use settings that the manual seems to be saying will be adequate and reasonably high fidelity for ripping music tracks. I have a fairly critical ear, and while I don't want to lose the advantage of compression altogether, I don't want to make tacky-sounding files without the detail and timbre (tone "color") that will satisfy me. So here are the settings I've made. I'll mention when I didn't understand something at all. 1. convert to ripped .wav file, left checked 2. thread priority normal 3. lame mp3 encoder version 1 4. don't delete ripped .wav file after conversion, checkbox left unchecked 5. version mpEGI (version of what?) 6. min. bit rate 192 (what does it mean to say minimum here? Maybe this means if you use a variable or average rate, it's not supposed to fall beneath this?) 7. stereo J-radio checked (what does "radio" have to do with anything here?)Or maybe "J-radio?" 8. Private checkbox not checked Huh? Private as opposed to what? Is the sighted user seeing things I'm not hearing, maybe? 9. checksum checkbox not checked (is this an error correction method that by default (I left this as it was) isn't to be used? Is that okay? 10. original checkbox not checked Original what? Huh? 11. copyright checkbox not checked (again, what's that mean?) 12. quality high (the manual suggested this for better music high if) 13. on-the-fly mp3 encoding checkbox checked (okay, that's the default, but what's it mean?) 14. vbr method disabled Here follows the word "quality," then the next press of the tab key brings you to vbr quality. Then the next line is ABR (KBBS); now this is the method the manual suggested using, but there's no control or input here, it seems, just the words. VBR method (no idea what this could be; again, there's nothing to set or check) 15. rate 44,100 default 16. That's it. Can anyone tell me if these settings are legitimate for the purposes I spoke of? Good quality music ripping? Thanks. Sorry to do this, but I found no step by step explanation of this options tab, or any other, in the help manual, even when clicking on the help button in the tab. What I got was very perfunctory, not an explanation of any of this. Many thanks, Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 5/6/2005 _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
