Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread the mighty spork
that's changing now. I have an e mahine, and it burns at 48x, and it's not even their top end machine. Rick - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:39 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread the mighty spork
no, once yu hit like 1500 commands, it will totally stop working. I hit that a month ago. rick - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:35 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > hi >

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Warren French
Not only is it a windows media audio format, but it's also the best format by a mile. Heere is my 2 cents. Considering windows media player 10 works really well with jaws and I wouldn't mind betting that it also works with window eyes and any other half decent screen reader, then wmp 10 gets m

Re: CDex information.

2006-06-04 Thread Sarah
Hmm. maybe they put it back up. I'll take a look at it. - Original Message - From: "patricknc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:54 PM Subject: Re: CDex information. I accessed that site from the JFWLite page this afternoon and it seemed

Mp3 files

2006-06-04 Thread denise avant
Hi all, I have a different question regarding the ripping of mp3. I ripped a cd to mp3 with media player 10. the interesting thing is that the name of the cd/the directory was listed, but for whatever reason the individual song tracks were not named. It just says track 01 etc. the interesting thing

Re: CDex information.

2006-06-04 Thread patricknc
I accessed that site from the JFWLite page this afternoon and it seemed fine. - Original Message - From: "Sarah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 8:25 PM Subject: Re: CDex information. > Oh, and the main CDex site is down, or atleast it w

Re: CDex information.

2006-06-04 Thread Sarah
Oh, and the main CDex site is down, or atleast it was a few months ago. - Original Message - From: "Jim Noseworthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC Audio" Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:21 PM Subject: CDex information. Hi Folks: In recent posts, I've seen references to the fact that CDex is

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi tyler i highly doubt real networks will switch to something like winamp, i just can't see it. the paid version of winamp burns at 48x, but this is only useful if you have a burner that supports burning that fast. not many burners that come with pc's do, and most of the lower end externals or mou

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi tyler can't comment for sure, but he's talking about media player. it goes in percent, but as he said it gives you more info. the wm 9 dialog isn't very accessible, but apparently that changed with 10. haven't bothered to waste an hour and a half to grab 10 to find out, i'd prefer about 40 minut

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi the link is http://www.whitestick.co.uk/download.html Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this l

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi just a correction here. gold wave only costs like 29.95 or some such. it's a very good editor. it allows you to do 150 commands free per session. after that, you get an alert about you being over the amount, but it will continue working. brandon Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: cal

CDex information.

2006-06-04 Thread Jim Noseworthy
Hi Folks: In recent posts, I've seen references to the fact that CDex is no longer free. I don't know where the author of the posts came across the information but I can tell you that CDex 1.60 Beta 1, is still freeware. Cheers. ___ PC-Audio Lis

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Bruce Toews
Lossless is actually any format where there is no loss of audio quality. Windows Media offers a lossless format, FLAC is another. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windo

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Gary Wood
You can also get CDex at JFWLite.COM! - Original Message - From: "Tyler Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:34 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > My mp3 player can't play .ogg files and besides it doesn't work. B

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Gary Wood
I believe that I have put over 200 songs on a CD! - Original Message - From: "Tyler Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:44 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > Ah, yes. Forgot about that. Its been a long time since

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Gary Wood
Lossless is a Windows Media Audio format! - Original Message - From: "Tyler Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > Its not a program; its a music format, like mp3 or wavv. > > T

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Gold wave allows you to tweak audio files (as Keven said, volume). You can also tweak various other things, such as echo, reverb, and I'm not sure what else. Oh yeah, you can convert between file formatts, and you can also change channels (so that the right speaker is now on the left speaker). T

M audio delta audiophile 192 and recording streaming audio.

2006-06-04 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hello! Is it posible to record streaming audio with the m audio delta audiophile 192 soundcard using any sound editor If yes then i've must have done something wrong during the installation becuase i can't figure out how to do this. THere are no settings for example in the volume control under th

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
That's what I don't get. If real would ditch that format and have a player like winamp, I'm sure they might get a bigger audience. Besides, I burned cds with real player for well over 2 years on my old win 98 machine. I can even see real player being supior to winamp since it burns as fast as 52

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Do you mean the quolity? Its kind of stupid- it goes in percents as a posed to bitrate. Or were you talking about cd-ex? I haven't used that yet but really want to now. Tyler - Original Message - From: "Sun Sparkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, Jun

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
My mp3 player can't play .ogg files and besides it doesn't work. But what was the link to CD-ex again? I'd like to try it out. thanks Tyler - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 3:15 PM Subject: Re: ri

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Terri Elliott
Hi, I'd like to know about the gold wolf program that you mentioned. Thanks. Terri - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 6:17 AM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player Hi Rosemary. Here's

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi tyler, the reason that is is because of the bitrate. it's probably set at like 320 or some garbage like that. you get just as good results with 192 cbr, or vbr around 192 even. personally, i use ogg. i don't mind having a bit less quality, so i use the OU2V3 ogg encoder with CDEX, which allows m

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Sun Sparkle
what you have to do is set the sliders to 128 in the options for ripping - Original Message - From: "Tyler Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 2:44 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > Ah, yes. Forgot about that. It

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi tyler, real player may be a good player, but like was said here, real format is a bugger to convert and is not supported very widely, so it was instantly taken off my list of possibilities. brandon Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Ah, yes. Forgot about that. Its been a long time since I've ripped music with WMP. I stil don't like the fact that when I convert to .mp3, I can only fit about 40 songs onto an mp3 cd, as a posed to 150 if I download the songs. Tyler - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
I think its stupid that real player doesn't allow .mp3 conversion, but that is about the only setback I can see, although you have to pay for some things which is even more of a drag. I stil like winamp, though, but I use meedia player for leasure music listening since its real easy to make pla

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Its not a program; its a music format, like mp3 or wavv. Tyler - Original Message - From: "Rosemarie Chavarria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 2:26 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > Hi, Kevin. Where can you get t

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, Kevin. Where can you get this program called Lossless? Rosemarie - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 11:03 AM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > Hi Mari. > > Not a stupid quest

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Tyler. There's plenty of references to using OGG plug-ins in media player - just google it. As for the real format, well that's just too proprietary and will never be supported widely by portable devices and is a pain to convert so that's a non starter for me even if it is the best player in t

RE: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Bruce Toews
I play copy-protected WMA files with no difficulty using Winamp. bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Radio Show and Podcast: http://www

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Tyler. You can use your JAWS cursor to check the status of the rip. Just below the menu bar there's a toolbar that says 'stop rip' when ripping is in progress and this changes to 'rip music' when the rip is completed. The automatic ejection of the CD is more convenient though, of course. Reg

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Andre. Yes, it's certainly true that music of low complexity will need less information held to represent the music. When I've previously ripped in variable rate MP3 format with high quality, it was difficult to find a 60's track that wanted more than 192kbps whereas most off the music that I

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Brandon. It was a while back when I looked at the latest version of CDEX and I think it's the version on www.whitestick.co.uk that was no longer freeware, version 1.6.0 beta. Despite it being advertised as freeware, I remember downloading and seeing that it had now become shareware. I still u

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Do you mean licensed files? My winamp plays them. That's too bad, though, if its a really long file in wmp you can't really have a "bookmark" where in winamp there are time markers. Tyler ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... htt

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
You could always try cdex or exact audio copy. (I don't have the link right off hand for the latter). By use of a compressor (a good one, mind you like laim or such) you can get a variable bitrate, which means the music will go up or down in KBPS depending on the complexity or voluem of the musi

RE: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread André van Deventer
Hi all Just one thing I have found and also the reason why I do not use winamp. Many download services like od2.com which is the one used by a South African company here, encrypt their files in copywrited wma format. I have never found a version of winamp that can play them. And therefore I pre

mp3 player having problems

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Hi everyone, I have an mp3 player. A PNY vibe 2 GB model. It acts as a removable disk in windows and it was a good player. I had to get a third party USB cable since my dog chewed the old one. That was when it started to have problems. Not huge ones, mind you, it was just picky about which USB

RE: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread André van Deventer
Hi all Just another question about this for which there is probably not really an answer. Are there some music which can actually be e.g. ripped to mp3 format without really losing too much or no sound quality? I am thinking now of e.g. music recorded in the fifties and sixties, single instrumen

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
ahem... I'd have to say that real player would win against playing all filetypes even though it may be hard to get used to. Its easy to make a playlist, and at least in my experience its a good all-around player. You can rip music from real player, too. It it doesn't get much simpler: put a cd

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
To add to that, though, windows meedia player is good for a beginner. Then you could move up to cdex when you know all of the ripping methods and such. Tyler - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 9:14

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
This is a method, I believe, that is kind of like bariable bitrate. By this I mean that the bitrates will switch between 128 and 60 or something similar, depending of the complexity of the music and part of the small. By doing this, the music will sound just as good and the file will be smaller.

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Tyler Wood
Ripping cds with windows meedia player is easy: 1. open windows meedia player.2. Asuming you have version 10, tab until you hear "rip cd" or something; even if you don't have 10, however, something similar will be there. 3. Press space, and tab until you see a list box with checkboxes. You can

Re[2]: Rockbox Recording Settings Not Spoken

2006-06-04 Thread Arnaud de Bonald
no, this is a current limitation on all non Archos models that record and that support Rockbox. The original Iriver firmware do record in Wav or MP3 format. but for now, Rockbox only support Wav format recording in 44100 HZ 16 Bit stereo. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 26/05/20

Re[4]: txt2mp3

2006-06-04 Thread Arnaud de Bonald
biblos do not split mp3 files. it split the creation of the audio in MP3 format by the specified number. for example if you put 47, it would split the reading into 47 mp3 files. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 26/05/2006 at 21:45 kevin cussick wrote: >Hi all, > >My finger is fee

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi kevin, you probably have some good points here. i haven't really bothered to try and mess with media player for live albums in my posession. as for doing better with WMA, yeah. some of microsoft's products do actually work together. there are several bonuses for winamp, though. for one, it's ab

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Mari. Not a stupid question at all - the myriad of formats are definitely confusing until you get more acquainted with digital music. Basically, lossless means that nothing has been taken away from the music during compression. So, all of your high and low frequencies are left intact and ther

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Brandon. Don't completely disagree with your points below - very valid. However, I don't think it gets much easier to rip a CD than placing a CD in the drawer and having it automatically ejected less than 2 minutes later having been ripped to the format of your choice which once set as your de

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi, here's my thoughts on the subject. windows media player isn't nearly the best choice for cd ripping. you can go out and download a free program such as CDEX which is much easier to use, is focused on ripping and allows you to convert into mp3 much easier than windows media, as well as having m

RE: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread denise avant
Hello, Beginning with windows media player 9, you should be able to rip cds. The default is wma. If you want to rip using any other format such as mp3, you will have to go into the options and change that. With 9, you needed an mp3 incoder. But with 10, you do not. I did have a lot of trouble with

RE: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread mary dole
Hi Kevin, Thank you so much for sharing the step-by-step method for extracting tracks with Windows Media Player. I have just begun learning how to do this, and I was a bit confused. One question: What is "lossless"? Stupid, I know, but I'm a beginner. Thank you again. Mari Dole -Origina

Problem with Goldwave

2006-06-04 Thread Samuel Wilkins
Hello, when I am using Goldwave, it gives me an access violation after a bit of time and I can't exit it without using the task manager. What is going on? Samuel Wilkins Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype Cleverclogs6953 MSN Instant Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] A O L Instant Messenger Samuel4851 _

Re: ripping CD's with windows media player

2006-06-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Hi Rosemary. Here's a few notes I put together for a friend on ripping CD's using windows media player 10. Hope they may be of some use. Now, for ripping losslessly. The good news is that the program is free and you'll probably already have it. It's windows media player. You will need to have