Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-06 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Thanks, Bruce - it'll be interesting to see your results. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 8:44 PM Subject: Re: Windows

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Gary Wood
tracks. - Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Hi Bruce. > > Yes, as I said I've never used Flak and so was hoping the Bruce

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2006-07-05 Thread Bruce Toews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:07 PM > Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > > >> It's the FLAC versus

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
dio discussion list. " 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 i

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-05 Thread Kevin Lloyd
Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:07 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > It's the FLAC versus WMA lossless comparison that I'd like to make. I > understand the compa

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Richard Claypool
io discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:52 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 in

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Well I know that everything that isn't a wav file is considered a data > file. > - Original Message - > From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 20

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2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
DVD players don't tend to play ogg vorbis files unfortunately. - Original Message - From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio >I guess I'll hav

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2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
Well I know that everything that isn't a wav file is considered a data file. - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:53 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio >I was mak

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
IL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Hi Brandon. > > Those of us that have used both MP3 and WMA exhaustively would definitely > disagree with this statement. MP3 is an ancient technol

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Bruce Toews
Hi Bruce! Do you use the AAC format, and if you do, what do you think about > it? > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:52 PM > Subject: Re: Windows Media

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2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
Hi Bruce! Do you use the AAC format, and if you do, what do you think about it? - Original Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:52 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio >I don

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2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
AIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:52 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio >I don't have an anti-MicroSoft bias, I just hate Windows Media. I use OGG > Vorbis where possible, which my Victor Classic Plus will play, and my only

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
ROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:31 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Well that's true, but I'm just saying that when my brother copied them for > me, they had mostly MP3's on them, but also, they had some WMA fi

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
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. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:27 AM Subject: Re:

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2006-07-04 Thread Bruce Toews
file to be around 35 to 40 meg. > > Regards. > > Kevin > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:53 PM > Subject:

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2006-07-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
gards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:53 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > What about the size of compression, how does Flac

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2006-07-04 Thread Bruce Toews
hey tend to be anti-microsoft, rather > than for flak for a good reason. Go WMA. > > Scott > > > - Original Message - > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:46 PM > S

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2006-07-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
erimentation and see for yourself how good WMA is compared to MP3. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 11:02 PM Subject: Re

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2006-07-04 Thread Bruce Toews
painful to rip my > collection all over but I can tell you that the difference in quality is > absolutely apparent and that pain has been rewarded. > > Regards. > > Kevin > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Original Message - > From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL P

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Scott Blanks
- Original Message - From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:46 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio Hi Bruce. The obvious advantages are: WMA is supported by many players and is probably the next

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Kevin Lloyd
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:26 PM Subject: RE: Windows Media Audio Does WMA Lossless ahve any advantage over FLAC or vice versa? Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to beco

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2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Dana S. Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > It stands for Advanced Audio Coding. > - Original Message - >

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2006-07-04 Thread André van Deventer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Claypool Sent: 04 July 2006 06:27 PM To: PC audio discussion list. 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

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2006-07-04 Thread Dana S. Leslie
It stands for Advanced Audio Coding. - Original Message - From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:26 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Sorry. Wasn't sure about the spelling. >

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2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
uot;Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Your point? Just because a cd is labled an "MP3" cd doesn't mean they have > to be mp3 files. They are actually called

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2006-07-04 Thread Richard Claypool
;" 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 s

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2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
Sorry. Wasn't sure about the spelling. - Original Message - From: "Dana S. Leslie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio >I think you mean .AAC - that's A A

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2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
L PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 2:04 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Well a brother of mine copied some MP3 CD's, and for some reason, some of > those files were WMA's! > - Original Message - > From: "Ha

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
Well a brother of mine copied some MP3 CD's, and for some reason, some of those files were WMA's! - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:00 AM Subject: Re: W

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Dana S. Leslie
I think you mean .AAC - that's A A C, not O C K. - Original Message - From: "Gary Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > Well there seems to be a resound

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Gary Wood
Well there seems to be a resounding vote of confidence for the OCK format, judging from some of the posts on the list! - Original Message - From: "Anders Holmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:54 AM Subjec

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Dana S. Leslie
now if the results would be any different. But just thought I'd report that, for anyone else who might want to try the experiment. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006

RE: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Bruce Toews
no problems with this format at all. Andre -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Hicks Sent: 04 July 2006 04:06 PM To: PC audio discussion list. Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio hi andre, The reason most things use WMA as there encoder

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2006-07-04 Thread André van Deventer
discussion list. Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio hi andre, The reason most things use WMA as there encoder is because it has "good" DRM capabilities now and is well integrated into windows media player. Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL

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2006-07-04 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi andre, The reason most things use WMA as there encoder is because it has "good" DRM capabilities now and is well integrated into windows media player. Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ PC-Audio

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Hayden Smith
audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:54 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > HellO! > Use ogg or mp3 instead. > I should never use it. > /Anders. > - Original Message - > From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-04 Thread Anders Holmberg
HellO! Use ogg or mp3 instead. I should never use it. /Anders. - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 12:02 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > hi gary, > this is

RE: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-03 Thread Bruce Toews
ECTED] [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:

RE: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-03 Thread André van Deventer
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" <[EM

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2006-07-03 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi That's extremely hard to believe, unless there's some sort of ultra-secret version that he's using. Are you using winamp? If so, you can check the stream info with alt+3, you'll most likely have to use your mouse review cursor whatever you want to call it to get the info, but that'll tell you wh

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2006-07-03 Thread Brent Harding
t even remember. - Original Message - From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > hi gary, > this is a resounding, firm and total no! > Windows media

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-03 Thread Richard Claypool
no, because a 160k file is larger. Rick - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:50 PM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio > The day that that happens, the windows media form

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2006-07-03 Thread Gary Wood
s too finicky to play the Og format, as good is it is. I'm not sure about Ock plus, but probably, it wouldn't play that either! - Original Message - From: "Hayden Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-03 Thread patricknc
Speaking of Windows Media, I have a strange one. I like to go onto cdconnection.com and play some Windows Media clips, but lately they don't play. I get no error message at all. Does anyone have any ideas or anything I can do about this? I have a 2.8 gig processor with 512 megs of memory.

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-03 Thread Brandon Hicks
hi gary, this is a resounding, firm and total no! Windows media has less quality at 128 kbps than mp3 does at 112. It is not a good filetype. It is totally bad for you. Brandon Hicks Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: callto://reyuth msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

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2006-07-03 Thread Bruce Toews
I'd find it difficult to believe. By my experiences, Windows Media has always been a step below Real Media in quality, in my personal opinion. Other opinions may vary. Bruce -- Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:1

Re: Windows Media Audio

2006-07-03 Thread Hayden Smith
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. " Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 7:48 AM Subject: Windows Media Audio > Hi a