From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 8:27:21 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0640A37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:27:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E15E43F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:27:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h13GRAof095612 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:27:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder References: <20030202165056.GA5179@teddy.fas.com> <20030203030949.GK89972@arpa.com> <53004.198.162.158.15.1044289007.squirrel@www.dubium.com> From: Kirk Strauser Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 10:27:07 -0600 In-Reply-To: <53004.198.162.158.15.1044289007.squirrel@www.dubium.com> ("Joe Sotham"'s message of "Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:16:47 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: <87r8apmisk.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-02-03T16:16:47Z, "Joe Sotham" writes: > I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital > source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I think you may be mixing up the concepts slightly. A flac file is similar to an mp3, in that both are compressed forms of the original audio file. The main difference is that a flac file can be decompressed into a bit-for-bit identical copy of the original file, whereas a decompressed mp3 bears almost no resemblance to the original. You would probably sample your tapes into a wav file, edit it to your liking, then use flac for archival. > I do not require an archival quality process only one that allows me most > flexibility in cleaning up the static and hiss which accompanies the audio > tapes. wav (or similar) is probably your only real option for the intermediate storage. =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+Pphe5sRg+Y0CpvERAmpwAJ0YwKtR3iKbi88lr70ozvIPkPrUoACeMss9 Mzj0vmHIsINsEVqAqYR2qTg= =C2qi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message