RTP-area local music and culture

[Kevin Darbro <kdarbro AT nc.rr.com>]

It's hard for me to tell a a substantial quality difference from the
original ACC files (which are obviously already compressed) when I rip MP3s
at 192 kbps. They sound acceptable on my studio monitors, on the car stereo
and on my iPod's ear bud headphones.

So, I guess the quality is good enough for me.

I remember in the olden days, my friends and I would make copies of copies
of cassette tapes, and somehow we lived with the quality loss!

As long as I could hear 80's music on my generic walkman back in the day, it
didn't matter. 

Rock on,

- Kevin



On 12/16/05 12:19 PM, "ron thigpen" <ron AT fuzzsonic.com> wrote:

> Bo Williams wrote:
>> It's even less complicated to just run JHymn on your itunes library
>> and enjoy your new mp3's:
>> 
>> http://hymn-project.org/
> 
>> On 12/16/05, Kevin Darbro <kdarbro AT nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
>>> It's as complicated as burning a music CD of the protected songs in 
>>> iTunes,
>>> ejecting that CD when it's done, inserting it again and ripping the songs 
>>> to
>>> MP3. At that point, the copy protection is bye bye and you can do what you
>>> want with the MP3s.
> 
> Re-ripping to MP3 from a burned CD introduces a generational loss, as
> you are re-encoding from one lossy format to another.  Whether this
> matters to you or not is between you and your ears.
> 
> Does Hymn work with the latest version of iTunes/iTMS?  I think that's
> no longer option for anyone who has upgraded.
> 
> --rt
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