From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Dec 17 13:36:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF5F237B406 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:36:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from web10806.mail.yahoo.com (web10806.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.130.248]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4892343EDC for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:36:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonstew1983@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20021217213656.16922.qmail@web10806.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.6.168.58] by web10806.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:36:56 PST Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:36:56 -0800 (PST) From: Jonathan Stewart Subject: Re: Recording sound files. To: Lute Mullenix Cc: newbies@freeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20021209101749.1acdfbaf.lute@cableone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I dont actually use BSD much right now (basically not at all :( i lack hard drive space and I still want to play my games) but anyway more on topic i would reccomend ogg vorbis rather than MP3 for two reasons 1 Quality is generally considered better with ogg for a given bitrate and 2 It is open source while the "official" MP3 codec requires royalties Yes Bladeenc does do MP3 but I think that being reverse engineered may also penalize quality. http://vorbis.com/ --- Lute Mullenix wrote: > Hi, > > I'm in the process of copying some songs from tape to my computer. > These > are old demo tapes made by local bands and pretty much one of a kind > items. I'm doing this in hopes of burning them on to CDs because of > the > fragile nature of cassettes. > > Anyway I have been using Xwave to record from the tape, then bladeenc > to > encode to mp3 format. This seems to be working pretty well, but am > wondering if anyone has used something different to do this sort of > thing. If so, what and how it worked for them. > > This kind of stuff is brand new to me and I'm flying by the seat of > my > pants so to speak on this one. > > Lute > ********************** > Dual Boot: * > FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE * > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 * > ********************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message