Roller Yoaster (joost@cuba.xs4all.nl)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:29:23 +0100
>Any decent sites out there for *our* music? A lot of the MP3 search
>engines I've used tend to only point me in the direction of cheesy
>music.
There are no good mp3 websites, all the real action happens on IRC.
Try joining an EFNet server and join #mp3triphop or #mp3rave.
You talk a little bit and ask around and then you start ftp'ing the tracks or full albums you'd like to hear.
>The ripper I have had the best results with (atapi & scsi cd-roms) is
>AudioCatalyst (from Xing & Audiograbber), the full version is not free,
>but well worth the 30-some-odd-dollars for the key! It cooks thru disks,
>and has a nice interface to CDDB to fill in the album/artist/songs (so
>you don't have to!). Plus, when you install the full version, it comes
>with a high quality encoding/compression codec (48kHz stereo / 128kbps).
Please don't use this Xing crap to encode your favorite cd's.
Xing produced rips sound very crappy.
The current "standard" in mp3 land is 160kb/s HQ rips produced by either MP3 Producer Pro 2.1 or Audioactive MP3 Production Studio PRO. Both programs cost around $300 or so, but when you ask around on the above mentioned channels on IRC, you'll be able to get them for free. All professional RIP groups outthere (like RNS, APC, CMS, UBE, RAC) use these programs, so please start using them too.
Good luck, and share some of your favorite music with the world, peace!
Joost
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