CD To MP3

[AeR0]

just wondering... recently ive been ripping my albums to my computer and ive been doing them at 192kbps i sold off the originals and now im putting my music back on to a burned cd...


my question is ripping them at 192 and than putting them back at on cd

is this what you would call cd quality?


i want to keep the original cd quality..

do you know what i mean?

[canadateck]

Dont tell us what you did with the originals, you will get carded,

[guns1inger]

You took something that was high quality (as CD original), compressed it using a butchering algorythm (MP3), then decompressed it back to CD. No. It is not CD quality. You threw that away when you used a lossy compression to store them.

Sorry if I sound harsh, but I have never found MP3 to be even remotely CD like in it's quality.

[AeR0]

tell me how do you notice the differnce?

[ricky1756]

your ears, mp3's, imho sound terrible, it's a lossy compression, so you can't regain what was lost. I only use lossless compression such as ape, flac or wma lossless.

[winifreid]

There have been tests that indicate that less than 10% of people can pick the CD from the MP3 starting at about 160. Gunslinger is one of the 10. You shouldn't admit here to doing illegal stuff.

[AeR0]

i am not doing anything illegal its music from my own band.

lol why does everyone assume everything is illegal!

lol

[canadateck]

Just look at the way you worded the first Post, Not much to Assume. I was just giving some friendly advice base on the wording used,Just so you wouldnt get carded. Didnt mean It to sound like a witch hunt.

[winifreid]

Well, I was off by a factor of 3. It is more like 30% can tell the difference. Here is the link to the test. It is quite old. I am suprised I remembered it. I suspect there would be some changes today because all of the codecs have been updated.
http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,64123,00.asp

[AeR0]

thanks for the link

i bookmarked it and will read it later!