Smiley Was Right
Why have I been using MusicMatch all this time to rip and encode MP3’s?
I’ve had folks tell me better, but noooooo … “It works for me.”
:bangs head on desk repeatedly.
Mark Smiley has prevailed upon me to use LAME and Exact Audio Copy for some time now. I brought in a couple CD’s at lunch, and I decided to give it a whirl.
I now feel like the biggest buffoon in Huntsville.
Thanks, Mark.
Posted March 16th, 2004 in Geekery by Geof F. Morris.
I’ve always used CDEX, a nice free program for ripping & organizing my MP3 collection.
March 16th, 2004 at 14:10Try using iTunes to listen to your music. It’s amazing how much faster I can access artists/albums/songs in iTunes compared to MusicMatch (which I used for several years).
March 16th, 2004 at 15:13Well, I will probably end up migrating to Winamp to play stuff [at least for now]. Why? On-the-fly playlist extraction through DoSomething.
Silly, I know.
March 16th, 2004 at 15:16If you can get your hands on a copy of the original Fraunhoefer professional codec (and you can, you just have to ask nicely), I think you’ll be a lot more impressed with the results than using the lossy LAME one. Just my two cents’ worth.
March 16th, 2004 at 19:16Well, I imagine that I could get the Fraunhofer codec, but I’ll go with legal things here.
March 17th, 2004 at 08:22wow…i can’t believe you’ve been on musicmatch…you…geof morris…;)
i use iTunes, also.
March 17th, 2004 at 15:20The Fraunhofer codec is lossy. While I’ve never done a listening test, I’d be very surprised if an outdated codec could keep up with LAME.
And it’s about time you start paying attention to what I say. And listen to some of these other people, too! iTunes is your friend. Although, I still rely on WinAMP (2.80) for various stuff.
March 19th, 2004 at 02:10MP3 Playlist in Sidebar
May 10th, 2004 at 18:14Thanks to Amy pointing me to Oddsock.org’s DoSomething plugin many, many moons ago … and Mark’s intervention to make me move away from MusicMatch after all these many years … and a little CSS-fu [dangit, I had to go and make that all !importa…
you know that the lame encoder makes brave alterations like filters and noise shapping to try to increase the presevd quailty. I would rather go with fraunhofer if you want HQ get the pro version it’s slow but good. Or maybe try aac (mp4) and for those mac users out there you can encode in pro using something called /make mine mp4/ this also needs quicktime pro.
Encoding aac in pro is far better than using itunes as you only get a lower grade of quailty when encoding.
The ideas above have been from my own experince and some of 10 year worth of messing about with lossey music encoding and computers.
July 26th, 2004 at 07:46ID3-TagIT
July 27th, 2004 at 08:25Various Artists CDs—such as the Paste Music Sampler I got today—are always a pain to tag when ripping MP3s. I went searching for a good MP3 ID3 tagger today, and I found one: ID3-TagIT. This is a nice complement to my use of LAME and EAC.