FW: [CIMC-work] Uploading audio (fwd)

[Ian Bicking]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 00:32, Chris Kaihatsu wrote:
> Yeah to what Elizabeth said, and I'd like to add that raw audio takes
> up too much room (hence loooooong downloads, even for high-speed
> Internet users), so the audio off a regular audio CD wouldn't be in a
> usable format for upload to the CIMC site.

If you are using Windows, I would highly recommend CDex (cdexos.sf.net)
for creating MP3's from a CD.  I believe it includes LAME (if not you
should install it), which is the best MP3 encoder (i.e., better sound in
less space).  All free, of course.

I don't really know about Macs, though the LAME encoder also works on
Macs, so you'd want to find a program that uses that encoder (hmm...
http://philippe.laval.free.fr/DropMP3/index.html , from
http://lame.sourceforge.net/links.html )

If you encode at 128 or 192kbits, you should have something suitable for
playing on the radio, and acceptable for putting on a CD (though
somewhat degraded, but only to an audiophile's somewhat snobbish ear). 
You can experiment with a lower online rate -- maybe 64, 48 or even
lower -- try encoding it and see what it sounds like.  The lower you can
go the more accessible it will be.  In general speech can be compressed
more than music before you notice sound degradation.

  Ian