Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:11:15 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best archiver? (for music) Message-ID: <20090315051114.GC28705@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903150516360.38979@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20090313191520.GA14233@thought.org> <20090313202226.GA47453@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903132128460.33043@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090314030558.GB25027@thought.org> <20090314072602.GA75036@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090315035101.GA28705@thought.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903150516360.38979@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 05:18:06AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > listened-to (kttsd) the man lame. Then surfed around; then came > > back to the man page and read the several examples. So: the idea > > is that lame ["just"] converts WAV files to mp3. There is a > > as every good unix tool - it does exactly what is supposed to do. > > nobody forbids you to make your script that do what you want with lame and > say cdda2wav > > > Given the availability of compression these days, it makes me > > wonder why telephone conversations still sound so 'tinny'. But > > then, that's another matter. > > > with right configured speex codec phone talks sounds actually better than > uncompressed :) That's the idea: take telephone/voice @ what? 4kbps? -- it was something very narrow bandwidth so the phone companies could squueze more speech into each wire. Anyway, given 4k or whatever bits/sec, built in a single chip into each new phone to compress and uncompress. And up the quality of the speaker! -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php
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