Comments on: Smiley Was Right

By: The Indiana Jones School of Management

The Indiana Jones School of Management — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:25:58 +0000

ID3-TagIT
Various 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.

By: dodge and burn

dodge and burn — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:46:48 +0000

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.

By: The Indiana Jones School of Management

The Indiana Jones School of Management — Mon, 10 May 2004 23:14:53 +0000

MP3 Playlist in Sidebar
Thanks 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…

By: smiley

smiley — Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:10:53 +0000

The 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 While I’ve never done a listening test, I’d be very surprised if an outdated codec could keep up with LAME.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.

By: david

david — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:20:46 +0000

wow…i can’t believe you’ve been on musicmatch…you…geof morris…;)

i use iTunes, also.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:22:39 +0000

Well, I imagine that I could get the Fraunhofer codec, but I’ll go with legal things here.

By: Aaron L.

Aaron L. — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 00:16:58 +0000

If 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.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:16:09 +0000

Well, 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.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:13:34 +0000

Try 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).

By: siliconchef

siliconchef — Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:10:39 +0000

I’ve always used CDEX, a nice free program for ripping & organizing my MP3 collection.