Hey guys, just a quick question for you - I'm pretty up to date with the whole computer side of DJing etc, but there's this one thing that's bugging me...

How did they manage to encode that "Radio1 Essential Mix - John 00 Flemming" set onto 192Kbps with such good quality?

Now I know that Radio 1 do a constant encode to the internet using Real Audio, but they actually encode at 44.1Kbps which, in fairness, sounds crap. How was this set ripped at 192 which sounds so good - even loud?
Was it ripped at real time using something like audiograbber and using the line in of the soundcard? Surely radio quality is not that high?

Please enlighten me

are you sure that 44.1Kps isn't supposed to be 44.1 Khz (which is the industry standard resulution; CD-quality)

Yes. There's a pretty big difference between 44KHz, and 44.1Kbps!!

Real Player states that the Radio 1 Stream that is broadcast over the internet (Even in it's G8 state) is encoded at 44.1Kbps.

Thus, I do not understand how such a high bitrate was achieved on this file.

I guess they ripped it direct from radio?

You can't make something sound a lot better than the original....just a bit,putting stuff through finalizers and good EQ-ing, but nothing miraculous.....

Fair enough,

thanks for your help m8.