Janina, Actually, you were making the point that I was making i n my message. -- Charlie. On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > No, they can't possibly sound better converted from mp3 to wav. It's an > old story, you can't make silk from a sow's ear. > > The mp3 format is a compressed format. Aspects of the original recording > have been thrown away in the compression process. That information is > gone forever. You can't magically get the richer details available in an > uncompressed format like wav by converting from mp3 to wav. > > This is also an example of how dissengenuous the recording industry is > over peer to peer file sharing. The copies being shared, for the most > part, are no where near the quality of the recordings shrink wrapped in > the music store. It's not as they say, that every digital copy is an > exact duplicate of the original. That's just balderdash. And there are > many many more ways to make an inexact digital copy, just as there have > long been ways to make an extremely accurate analog copy of analog > media. > > But, I diagress yet again. > > > Charles Crawford writes: > > From: ccrawford at acb.org > > > > I don't really know the answer to your question but it brings up a > > question of my own. Given the dynamics of mp3 recording, how does > > converting them to a wave file do any good? Do they sound any better? > > > > -- charlie. > > > > > > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Patricia Logan wrote: > > > > > Hi! I have gotten a lot of mp3s from a friend. I > > > transformed them to wav files using mpg123 as described on this > > > list. When I tried to copy these onto a disc using cdrecord in > > > -dao mode I got the message that the tracks had to be passed, > > > having to be lumtiples of some number which I can't remember. How > > > difficult will it be to dealwith this? > > > > > > Pat Logan > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
