Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread steef
Jean-François Pirlet wrote: This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Mark
> Jean-François Pirlet wrote: The mp3 is to the CD what the abstract is to the book, if you want. If you have the book, you can write the abstract, but the other way round won't work. [snip] You could also go from mp3 320 to mp3 160 (gaining disk space but losing quality). But going from 160

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from > any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is > uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are > lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to store > ID3 tag info

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Mark
> 2009/10/28 steef hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. > Here's a good link that explains transcoding, which is what your question is about: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Transcoding >>

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread steef
Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2009/10/28 steef mailto:debian.li...@home.nl>> hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality [ceter

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2009/10/28 steef > hi folks, > > some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing > mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. > > my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality > [ceteris paribus] > No. You can achieve sound improvemente only if you

using lame

2009-10-28 Thread steef
hi folks, some times i use lame [...@lame --preset insane foo.mp3] to enhance existing mp3_files with 48Kbit >> 320Kbit. my question: does this r e a l l y gives an improvement of sound quality [ceteris paribus] google came up only with some hunches. regards, steef, user wit