Tutorial Audio CD's to the DJ - Page 2

anshu · 09-08-04, 11:15 PM

thats just dumb, you cant go up from quality, and going down is just killer on quality

_SLY_ · 09-08-04, 11:19 PM

what in the hell are you talking about? i'm reencoding my library completely...they're all encoded at 128 now (that's what i ripped at when i was a noob) and i wanna reencode them at either 192 or a vbr of 128-192

and just a quick question, anshu...are you using your CMOY with the fontopias? hows that workin out? just curious cuz i'm using a MINT for my senn px100's and hd550's...

thanks

anshu · 09-09-04, 12:32 AM

dude, you relize that reeconcoding from the 128 source will not do any good it will only do harm, its like if i take a photo and it cuts off the head of the person, i cant bring it back in the darkroom by making the photo bigger

cmoy amp works real nice, only use it for long trips tho

Morphling · 09-09-04, 12:58 AM

Sounds like you bought an amp just to look cool. If you truly knew music then you would know never to reencode a lossy format. First of all the mp3 is already at 128 kbps, ripping that to 192 kbps is essentially taking that crappy quality to begin with then ripping it down even lower. You're going to have to rerip your collection or keep them all at 128 kbps.

_SLY_ · 09-09-04, 09:55 AM

alright thanks...btw morphling....i bought the amp cuz i was originallly using it with cd's and such...i'm new to this whole digital audio thing...thanks for what positive help there was though...

nice photo example too, anshu, made sense to me...i guess if i had logically thought about it that would have occurred to me....thanks

anshu · 09-09-04, 08:37 PM

np analogies are what i do
lol

hk29 · 10-08-04, 01:34 PM

I searched and searched but couldn't find an answer.

Is there a limit on bit rate for the DJ to playback? (i.e. will it playback a bitrate of 320kbs or higher?)

TIA

getthecatdj15 · 10-08-04, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by Morphling

First of all the mp3 is already at 128 kbps, ripping that to 192 kbps is essentially taking that crappy quality to begin with then ripping it down even lower.

Umm..192 is higher than 128...so that would be ripping it even higher
Am I wrong?

imported_Jammin · 10-08-04, 04:16 PM

No your right. I use 192-256 for my bitrate, awesome sound quality. Oh and I THINK the highest bitrate a DJ will play is 320 kbps. Somone correct me if I'm wrong.

ameyer17 · 10-08-04, 04:31 PM

Originally Posted by getthecatdj15

Umm..192 is higher than 128...so that would be ripping it even higher
Am I wrong?

Ripping from a CD at a higher bitrate improves the quality. However, reencoding 128 kbps mp3s as 192 kbps mp3s loses quality. This even goes for burning to a CD and re-ripping. In the decoding and encoding (probably all encoding), you would lose quality. Anytime you compress in a lossy format, you lose quality.

Also, I saw somewhere that 320 is the highest bitrate the DJ will play, at least for mp3s, and I believe that it is the highest bitrate technically allowed in the mp3 specification.

getthecatdj15 · 10-08-04, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by ameyer17

However, reencoding 128 kbps mp3s as 192 kbps mp3s loses quality.

ok. i kind of figured that, but thanks for clearing it up. Would it actually lose quality or sort of stay the same? since you start at 128, and try to bring it to 192 but it loses some quality. Would it go back down to around 128? or even lower?

platypustamer · 10-08-04, 06:13 PM

you would lose quality and take up more space.....don't do it.

Pezjulo · 10-08-04, 06:25 PM

I just read that there are images of the new dj already available....can somebody tell me where can i find them?

platypustamer · 10-08-04, 06:27 PM

*Please post in the appropriate section next time.* I can't find anything on it.......sorry. Dell always keeps things under wraps until almost release day.

getthecatdj15 · 10-11-04, 08:50 PM

1 more thang:
can you use poweramp as an on-pc player