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| NomadaNare |
| Hey for all you tech heads put there, Does anyone kno of a free or shareware mp3 or wav to aac converter that can be used in Windows XP? I been lookin for one, just wanted to kno if u guys found any. |
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| tc-fan |
| i think AAC is for mac user..you want a good compression try Ogg Vorbis... |
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| El~ZaPo |
Don't encode a compressed file into another type of compression. This is called transcoding and basically you would be stripping away a lot of the sound quality. It's not worth it.
But ripping an uncompressed source into a compressed format is fine. You could download iTunes for Windows, that has AAC and MP3 encoders built in. AAC is not a mac-only format, you can use it on any platform just like MP3, OGG, etc. |
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| MrSquirrel |
I believe you can do it in iTunes if you so desire.
MrS |
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| tc-fan |
| quote: | Originally posted by El~ZaPo
Don't encode a compressed file into another type of compression. This is called transcoding and basically you would be stripping away a lot of the sound quality. It's not worth it.
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well i decoded a 256 mp3 to wav and encoded to ogg. and it sounds as good the the 256mp3 but with less space,,,i didnt notice any degrade... |
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| goodnet |
| quote: | Originally posted by tc-fan
well i decoded a 256 mp3 to wav and encoded to ogg. and it sounds as good the the 256mp3 but with less space,,,i didnt notice any degrade... |
You may not have perceived any loss of audio quality (espiecially considering that it was a 256 kbps mp3, which sounds "transparent" to an uncompressed WAV/cd format to the large majority of people), however I am pretty sure that it has indeed lost some quality from that transcode you did.
If one transcoded say a 128 kbps mp3 file to ogg, the difference may be more noticeable. Espiecially on a bigger sound system.
'Only reason i'd transcode is to get more playtime out of a portable music player, even then i'd still keep the original mp3s archived. |
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| U121 |
AAC?
bleh, AC3 for tha people :] |
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| SuperFarStucker |
| Whenever you transcode OR re-encode a file your encoding the artifacts the last encoding made. Encoder's are so to speak dumb, in the manner that they can't tell artifact data from non-artifact data so they just encode it all. Plus, each encoding type has certain deficiencies. What's for certain, however, is that it won't sound any *better* after re-encoding so there is no point really... |
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| tc-fan |
| quote: | Originally posted by goodnet
'Only reason i'd transcode is to get more playtime out of a portable music player, even then i'd still keep the original mp3s archived. |
me tooo..i do it to transfer ogg to my Iriver...encoded it at 75kbps...sounds sooo clean.. |
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