Re: OTish what's going to happen to HiFi?

In article <8kt5i1t5oq1v0b5itvud04rbq3bbbosbjl@xxxxxxx>, {$usenet-
spamdump$}@mrtickle.demon.co.uk says...

> In <MPG.1d8cfc7f2e6c814d989685@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim Howarth
> <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >LAME can be used to reencode mp2 files as mp3, giving much greater
> >comaptibility.
>
> I my case I have hundreds of files, re-encoding is not an option I am
> prepared to consider

I have over 1000 radio shows recorded with DigiTV card as mp2s, I batch
convert them to mp3, its not a problem if you use something like
Razorlame to automate the process (I actually trigger the conversion
with a little Python script).

(A half hour show only takes about a minute to reencode.)

> and it would be another generation and another
> reduction in quality (car use is not the only use for these files).

Agreed but for in car/personal stereo use I don't think you'ld notice.

> As
> far as I understand it, mp2 is a subset of mp3 so any mp3 player should
> be able to play the file.

I don't think it's quite that simple, the reason I converted my files
(keeping the same bitrate as broadcast) is that the .mp2 versions, even
renamed as mp3, wouldn't play on my Sony Personal CD/mp3 player or
Archos hardisc player, haven't tested the (Sony) car mp3 player with
these.


> bloody awkward players I've tried refused to play back though unless I
> took the mp2 file and renamed it as mp3 (not re-encoded) - after that
> they played. But that work-around would involved reburning all my CDs.

Maybe the Tivo creates an mp2 which is closer to an mp3 than the DigiTV
card does !

--
Tim
.

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