On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 17:06, Jan Depner wrote: > Just had to put my 2 cents in here. So, I go and buy the CD - it won't > rip or play on my computer - I slap it in my decent CD player (with > analog outs to my DSP2000) - I record it at 16/44.1 - I encode it in ogg > - I post that on the web somewhere. Now, question for the student, how > much worse is my ogg copy than a ripped and encoded ogg copy? If you're > willing to settle for mp3 then this is just as acceptable and it can't > be stopped. From what I gather from most of my reading up on sound > cards, most of them go from digital to analog and then back when you rip > anyway. Is the connection from your cd player to your sound card > digital? It is on my system but I don't think it is on most of the > cheaper ones. This is what the RIAA refers to as the "analog hole". They're looking for ways to stop you from doing just that. It's not technically possible since it has to be converted to analog at some point so we can actually hear it. Thus all the legislation we've been having thrown around. Taybin
