takahita_tsukino wrote: ~320
Keep in mind that most of those are songs that I ripped from my CDs. I have them all in 128kbps MP3 (Yes, I know...
). I am seriously thinking about ripping them all again but this time in FLAC.
It'll take up much more space though.
take up more room
there is no need for that. use the ogg vorbis format and set it at a vbr, of an average of 196 and a high of 256 and a low of 128, you will get the best there is that way.
the file will be listed as the 196 or which ever is the real average of the file and it will use as much or as little space is needed i have some songs that range from 420 bps to 50 bps in the same song it uses what it needs where it needs it. and the file sounds just as good.
as the mp3 format. now i know i have mine sat to the vbr of 256 average and 196 as the low and 320 as the high. but i got lots of room.
still if you want better sound with smaller room at the same bps as your mp3's are now just make it ogg and set to a standard bps of 128 it will make your file smaller and sound just as good or better then the mp3.
you only need to get one program to do the converting for you also. just go and get
cdex.exe from webattack.com or some download place it is free and you can figure it out fairly easy if your ripping the songs all ready. becaus that is just a cd ripper program that uses a lot of different formats so you can use one you like. i just stick with ogg. as i like it.
but you can also use it to open a folder and convert all the mp3's to wav files then you just use it to reconvert them to ogg or what ever you like that it can use.
which is what i would do, it is not needed to re rip them from the cdrom. as you have them in good condition already. just take them and make them back in to a wav and then they are like they are on the cdrom, so it is just like making them into the other format the first time.
just make sure you set the normalization limits to the best. i set them to make all sound higher then 90% volume on the ripped file be no louder then 99% volume and i make it have all sound lower then 85% volume be no lower then 80% volume. now that is not making it scream at you all the time it will make each note to that for each notes volume on the file.
in other words, it does not raise the volume limit for each file to those only the volume % of the single note's volume %.
so you still get the song sounding like it is fading out but it is set to were it is easier to hear, since the notes can vary in the volume when recorded.
hard to explain in normal words and even harder to understand in tech words.
but i use the media jukebox for line in recording.
( but they have changed to a media center and i dont have the update so use caution if you want media jukebox. as i think they are going to retire it shortly.)
i use cdex ripper for all the converting and i use winamp to do all the tag editing, all free programs
but to add in the lost echo which if you listen you will hear the notes of a digital song are missing the full sound of a live singer or an old vinyl record (which recorded the exact sound from the singer) the digital does not record all the sound but what it is programed to do.
so i use a wav editor to add in the echo which is a lot of typing to tell you how. but it is already on my music site on a tip page so you can go there and read how to do it. but i have found some trouble doing the echo in the newer soundcards with equalizers built on them people set up that eq. on the card and then if they add in the echo to the file they can get too much echo and it is because they forgot the card eq. was already set up with echo.
so it is up to the way that you listen to music and just your likes and dislikes.
they say that most people that dont play a musical instrument are not able to tell the echo is not there. it is just that i am able to tell the difference and i like the echo.
no i cant play musical instruments, if i try and keep beat on a drum i can do that in rythum for about 30 seconds then it turns in to just banging.
i am not any good at that.
here i went and did it again said i just wanted to know how many were into songs like i am , and i went and did an add for ogg and to tell you how to convert and what other programs to use. bad bad bad
sorry.
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dang it i want a song when i what a song. 
