Hi Hayden. I'd absoluteley endorse what you're saying here. Encoding music is down to math and science and not subjective sampling done by your computer and so it's not a good idea to use different algorithms that decide which parts of the music they're going to throw away. However, I'd make one exception to your note below and that is in the case of WMA lossless. In this case, no sound quality has been compromised in the compression and so you have the full frequency range and stereo imaging to play with. Therefore, you will not suffer the cross coding issues you mention by creating an MP3 or other format file from a WMA lossless file. This of course is true for creating any format from any lossless format.
Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio Well yay for being young. I too could probably tell someone the difference between a 192K and a 320K file. Also a note, for those people who do have say WMA files, I hope you aren't say going into GoldWave and converting them into MP3 discs. This is called cross-coding. For those who don't have acute hering, this is not a great problem. However, cross-coding introduces things called "artifacts" into the recording quality. Say for example when you download mp3 clips off the internet and you hear that sort of "twinkle" in the background. That is sometimes due to cross coding but most of the time in that situation it is due to low bitrates. That is one of a few examples I could give of cross-coding. The only situation where you should be converting files is from a .wav file to a compressed file (IE. .mp3 .ogg .aac, etc.). As the .wav file is not compressed and is the original audio of everything being at a bitrate of 1403K (this usually being on CD's). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Claypool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:27 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio When I was younger I could hear the dif between 192 and 360, but after my axident my hearing's shot. I'd give anything to have it back. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "André van Deventer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'PC audio discussion list. '" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:46 AM Subject: RE: Windows Media Audio > Interesting though that many of the download services uses wma encoding > then. > > I have actually compared two recordings of the same song at 128 mp3 and > 128 > wma and the 128 wma one definitely sounded better. > > Andre > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Hayden Smith > Sent: 03 July 2006 11:50 PM > To: PC audio discussion list. > Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > > The day that that happens, the windows media format will be a great > success > and stop being on the back end of everything. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <Pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:48 AM > Subject: Windows Media Audio > > >> Hi all! I've heard that maybe a WMA file of 160 KBPS may have the >> quality of an MP3 at 320 KBPS. Is this true? >> _______________________________________________ >> 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] >> >> This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists >> we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ 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] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ 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] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ 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] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
