That's still a miniscule file size compared to the enormous amount of data required for mythical, aurally perfect raw audio. Given the many orders of magnitude improvement in performance and storage since then, I'm totally comfortable with throwing an additional 32kbps in there, going from 160kbps average to 192kbps average just to be totally safe. (Going down one level to the "medium" preset produces nearly exactly 160kbps average, my 2005 recommendation on the nose.)Įncoders have only gotten better since the good old days of 2005. … now produces variable bit rate MP3 tracks at a bitrate of around 192kbps on average. Lame -preset standard "cd-track-raw.wav" "cd-track-encoded.mp3" The authors of LAME must have agreed with me, because the typical, standard, recommended, default way of encoding any old audio input to MP3 … While everyone fixates on 24/192 as a magic bullet, we're not going to see any actual improvement. There are a few real problems with the audio quality and 'experience' of digitally distributed music today. Its playback fidelity is slightly inferior to 16/44.1 or 16/48, and it takes up 6 times the space. Unfortunately, there is no point to distributing music in 24-bit/192kHz format. 24/192 featured prominently in my own conversations with Mr. Much of the press and user commentary was particularly enthusiastic about the prospect of uncompressed 24 bit 192kHz downloads. So-called "high resolution audio" was recently thoroughly debunked for very similar reasons.Īrticles last month revealed that musician Neil Young and Apple's Steve Jobs discussed offering digital music downloads of 'uncompromised studio quality'. Any bit rate higher than that was just wasting space on your device and your bandwidth for no rational reason. I concluded that nobody could really hear the difference between a raw CD track and an MP3 using a decent encoder at a variable bit rate averaging around 160kbps. By the way: still a good investment! Go do it! Anyhow, previous research and my own experiments led me to write Getting the Best Bang for Your Byte seven years ago. I've recommended buying $200+ headphones and headphone amps for quite a while now. I'm not exactly an audiophile, but I like to think I have pretty good ears. So if you paid for a CD, you might be worried that ripping it to a compressed digital audio format would result in an inferior listening experience. That is, the uncompressed digital audio data contained on a CD is a nearly perfect representation of the original studio master, for most reasonable people's interpretation of "perfect", at least back in 1980.
Stupid atoms!ĬDs, unlike DVDs or even Blu-Rays, are considered reference quality. I'll donate all the ripped CDs to some charity or library, and if I can't pull that off, I'll just destroy them outright. But I continue to love music and listen to my music collection on a daily basis. Note that I didn't bother ripping any of the DVDs because I hardly ever watched them mostly they just collected dust. The point of this exercise is absolutely not piracy I have no interest in keeping both digital and physical copies of the media I paid for the privilege of owningtemporarily licensing. My current strategy of wishing my physical media collection into a cornfield involves shipping all our DVDs to Second Spin via media mail, and paying our nephew $1 per CD to rip our CD collection using Exact Audio Copy and LAME as a summer project. The death of physical media has some definite downsides, but after owning certain movies once on VHS, then on DVD, and finally on Blu-Ray, I think I'm now at peace with the idea of not owning any physical media ever again, if I can help it. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs:Īlthough I'd extend that line of thinking to DVDs as well. wma.Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. WMA files can be decreased in size with no loss of audio quality. This is an audio file format defined by Microsoft Inc. It offers compressed audio files of small size, but with comparatively high audio quality. The Ogg Vorbis encoder uses variable bit rate encoding. This is an open source, patent-free audio encoding and streaming technology. MP3 files are highly compressed files that still provide good audio quality. Cubase can read MPEG Layer 2 and MPEG Layer 3. This is a family of standards used for encoding audio-visual information such as movies, video, and music in a digital compressed format. This is an open source format that reduces the size of audio files by 50 % to 60 % compared to regular Wave files. The following compressed audio file formats are supported: FLAC File
In Cubase, you can import compressed audio files.
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