i did several tests some time ago (over 1,5 year i think) with several
encoding algorithms...... me and a friend both decided that RealAudio at
that moment was the best sounding algorithm for low-bitrate
encoding.....both mp3 and the microsoft algorithms focussed to much on
delivering high freqs which started phasing and warbling with all kinds of
transients loosing out.....RealAudio seemed better because the focus was not
so much on delivering high freqs but more on the "tightness" of the audio
material..
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Dirk van den Heuvel <dirkv@groovedis.com>
To: Ed Rahn <ed@ItsYourDomain.Com>; bump2k selectah <djessential@webtv.net>
Cc: <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: woensdag 3 oktober 2001 22:29
Subject: RE: DJ Essential's new mix "Sine of the times" on-line.
> Real audio files are easier to stream and the files are usually much
smaller
> (very important for those of us paying for storage space and/or
bandwidth).
> For those of us putting up samples or snippets or records for sale it's
even
> more important that its not as good quality...if someone hears something
> they like on realaudio they are more likely to go buy it. With an mp3
> sometimes the quality is so good there's little incentive to go buy
> it...just keep the mp3 (or burn it back to CD). That's one reason why
record
> labels hated napster and love (or at least tolerate) real audio.
>
> Dirk van den Heuvel
> President/GM, Groove Distribution
> "Your Guide To The Underground"
> http://www.groovedis.com
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Rahn [mailto:ed@ItsYourDomain.Com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:17 PM
> To: bump2k selectah
> Cc: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: DJ Essential's new mix "Sine of the times" on-line.
>
>
> if I may ask, what does everyone see in realaudio? The majority of music
> files I see on this list are .ram files. I'm personally not a big fan of
> anything realaudio, the software is kludgy and I don't think there's any
> open source software do encode or decode the files.
>
> What benefits does real audio files have over MP3's?
>
>
> hEaD
>
> p.s. I do not wish to start any type of flame wars, I'm just curious.
> Honesty I could care less what anyone uses to encode/decode their music ;)
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, bump2k selectah wrote:
>
> >
> > Hey people,
> >
> > check out this mix I did about a month ago. A nice eclectic mix of
> > broken beat & deep jazzy house. please, let me know what you think about
> > it.
> >
> > Part 1
> > http://www.swell.net/realaudio/dj/essential/essential_sine_side_a.ram
> >
> > part 2
> > http://www.swell.net/realaudio/dj/essential/essential_sine_side_b.ram
> >
> >
> >
> > e s s e n t i a l
> > "no categories, no boundaries, no rules"
> >
> > p.s. wait till you guys hear my brand new mix "expansions", like the
> > night me & Saint brought Phoenix last week. the mix might be up by next
> > week. :)
> >
> >
>
>
>
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