Klarinet Archive - Posting 000274.txt from 2001/12

From: "Kevin Callahan" <kionon@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinetist Composer sound samples available
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 11:21:26 -0500

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subject: RE: [kl] Clarinetist Composer sound samples available

> > From: Stan Geidel [mailto:sgeidel@-----.net]
>
> > David, the quality of a CD to MP3 conversion should be lossless - there
> > should be no loss of quality from one format to the next since
> > you are going
> > from digital to digital. That is, of course, unless you
> > significantly reduce
> > the bit rate when you rip the CD over to MP3. If you keep the
> > bit rate the
> > same, you will experience the same quality.
>
> Even though MP3 is digital output, the algorithm used ends up with a lossy
> conversion (it does predictive / adaptive compression); there's
quantization
> noise in there, and sometimes it's quite apparent.

Of course I think you've both missed the obvious. Perhaps he wants a lower
sound quality. I know several artists who use this to make sure people, if
they enjoy the music, will buy the actual CD.

Kevin Callahan

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