Sound and Vision

Tuesday 1 November 2005 @ 01:38 // Filed under Linkage, Media

Let me offer you a trade. First, I will present some hot links. Then, I shall list my demands. We savvy? OK:

Alright, here is what I want to do:

  • Rip MP3s from my CDs
  • Convert existing MP3s to other bitrates and formats, like MP4/AAC (are they the same thing?)
  • Basic MP3 manipulation, like crop and slice
  • Conversion of various videos to 3GP

So, can you hook me up?

6 Comments — RSS

  1. Rip MP3’s from my CD’s
    – I would recommend Windows Media Player 10. Its CD lookup service is good, will let you rip up to mp3 at 320 kps and if it can’t find your CD information, you can manually enter the information.

    Convert existing MP3s to other bitrates and formats
    – dbPowerAmp is excellent. Has easy-to-use right-click convert functionality and once you have the necessary codecs installed will convert pretty much anything. The exception would be the protected iTunes format .m4p which can potentially be converted to .m4a using JHymn.

    Basic MP3 manipulation, like crop and slice
    – Audacity, Soundforge

    Comment by Azrael Montague — November 2, 2005 @ 9:08 pm

  2. if your looking for wav ogg mp3 converter and sound editor/recorder try audacity… it’s free.

    thought you got that 3gp stuff sorted out.

    Comment by lo4d3d — November 4, 2005 @ 11:20 am

  3. oh right… i see azrael has already linked it… ghay

    Comment by lo4d3d — November 4, 2005 @ 11:21 am

  4. Thanks for the tips guys. I’ve started with Audacity and the LAME utility for MP3 encoding. I’ve just been doin’ a little command-line encoding. I was quite impressed by how far you could downsample before the quality suffers, I didn’t really notice until I got below 64k. Mind you, that’s only on my humble computer speakers – but I was only planning on using this for my cellphone anyway. And that created a file 4x smaller than the one Azrael gave me, which was a pretty good result.

    I think I’ll try having both ~72K and ~128K versions of the file and seeing if I can tell the difference. Of course, this is MP3 – apparently AAC, which my phone also supports, is significantly better. So much to learn!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_audio_coding

    lo4d3d: with regard to the 3gp video, Mpegable crashed when I tried to encode the best video ever. It also has that annoying little watermark in the top corner. So it’s a good start, but I’m open to alternatives.

    Comment by db — November 5, 2005 @ 2:02 am

  5. this blasted post has got david bowies – sound and vision stuck in my head

    Comment by lo4d3d — November 5, 2005 @ 2:44 pm

  6. Yeah, that’s what I named it after. Well spotted! I can make that your ringtone, except I already picked out Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

    Comment by db — November 5, 2005 @ 7:18 pm

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