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dornay

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18. January 2003 @ 07:23

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In the process of trying to solve the problems of "high quality ripping/encoding" I have become a "mini-expert" on this matter. (Very mini!).

Windows Media Player for XP is so easy. But I hate Microsoft. So that is out.

Media Jukebox is also easy.

EAC is supposedly "the best" for quality.

I compared an MP3 made with MediaJukebox (Lame encoder) and EAC (Lame). By right clicking the MP3 file (Birthday by the Beatles) both showed the same "high quality - 424 KBPS 'CD Quality'". This is not supposed to happen. Is it? Should not EAC have a higher quality? or are they both numbers with differnces in the subjective experience.

Also after reading your site I compared the size of a 128 bit MP3 and 424 bit MP3. Both were 3.51 mb. Again this is not supposed to happen.

Can you direct me where to look for this phenomenon?

Thanks

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cd-rw.org

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18. January 2003 @ 22:42

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Excuse me but, where did you right-click and receive this false information? You have configured EAC and LAME based on this: http://cd-rw.org/articles/archive/mydeneaclame.cfm ?

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dornay

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19. January 2003 @ 11:11

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Thank-you for your note. I want to do the absolute best job on this matter, hence I am patiently working at it.

In Windows XP you can place your pointer (the arrow) over an MP3 file. When you right click a list comes up. Choose properties - summary advanced. This will give you the number (96 kbps etc) of the quality of the rip/encode process.

I very carefully went over all the instructions as per your link (I had thought I had did that anyway). It turns out that I had followed the instructions perfectly.

Using Media Jukebox on the Beatles cut Birthday with the LAME encoder (VBR high)I got an MP3 file which was 473 KBPS and 3.89 MB.

Using EAC on the Beatles cut Birthday with the LAME encoder (VBR high)as per instruction exactly I got an MP3 file which was 451 KBPS and 3.51 MB.

I have done this a number of times so I think I am doing it right (maybe not).

The interesting thing to me is that there seems to be a difference from day to day on "performance results".

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dornay

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19. January 2003 @ 11:15

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Something which I have not considered is error correction. It would appear - all other things equal - that EAC gives the best quality result. This statement is based on the reading of various message boards.

Thanks

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