"Julian Fowler" wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:58:44 -0000, "Keith G"
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Rather than mp3 (which will always be lossy, irrespective of the
bitrate), take a look at FLAC (s/w utilities available from
www.etree.org, or do a Google search). Lossless compression, and
plugins available for a widening range of players. Typically
compresses WAV files to 50-60% of their original size.


I'm *very* wary of all these 'proprietory' formats. The reason I have stuck
to MP3s up 'til now is that they are 'global and generic' and I haven't
really heard any other format (including stuff like WMA) that sounds
appreciably better.......


OTOH, since your WAV files come from vinyl, you can probably scramble
them to 64K mp3 with no appreciable loss of audio quality ;-)


Hadn't thought of that........