"Stimpy" wrote in message

Mark (UK) wrote:
Keiron wrote:
I've ripped most of my CDs to my PC's hard drive, using EAC and
storing as WAV (uncompressed) files.

Either you don't have many CDs or you've got a seriously big hard
drive...!

I was thinking the same! I started off using uncompressed WAVs but
after a while decided to look beyond the blind prejuduce and started
experimenting with MP3's. I decided *I* couldn't tell the difference
between a 320kbps MP3 and a WAV. YMMV


AAC (advanced audio coding) is better than MP3 (it was designed to
overcome some of MP3's limitations). If you've got Exact Audio Copy you
can set it up to compress to the PsyTEL AAC encoder:

http://pessoal.onda.com.br/rjamorim/aacenc_v215.zip

and you can get a Winamp plug-in for AAC he

http://www.rarewares.org/files/aac/in_mp4.zip

and other AAC utilities he

http://rarewares.org/aac.html

I get Whata Hi-Fi (I know, it's a comic, but...) and they don't seem to
even know that AAC is a miles better codec than MP3.

AAC is also available in Nero 6 and free in iTunes.


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