stevo Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 Hi. Just wondering about using windows media player 9. A lot of the time if I am recording a cd - I will record it onto my HDD with media player as I use it as a jukebox of sorts in my pc. Then, if I want to stick an album onto MD, I will import it with SS2 and transfer to MD. My question is: if i am doing this, and I record a cd onto my HDD at 48kpb or 64kps with media player then I transfer it onto MD at LP2 - am I conning myself? Am I really just putting the album opnto MD at whatever I recorded it at with media player and not really getting LP2 at all? So should I be recording with Media Player to my HDD at 160kps or above so that when I import to SS2 and transfer to MD at LP2, I am actually getting LP2 / 162kps? Or is it all totally independent and it doesnt matter what i do with media player 'cause SS2 will record to MD at 162kps regardless? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iceeedtea Posted April 2, 2004 Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 You're doing something much, much worse. What you've done, is record to your HD in a lossy format [WM9]. This, already, is a very low-quality sound format. By sending it to your NetMD unit in LP2 mode, you decompress the low grade sound to .wav, and SonicStage reconverts it to LP2. Transcoding == bad. If you want true LP2 quailty, copy your discs using SonicStage -> LP2. Simple, yet effective, but you will be unable to play the files in any other media player Thus, give EAC 0.95pb5 a glance. Copy your discs to your HD in .wav [uncompressed] format, and import them into SonicStage [or write to a CD image with Nero, mount the image, and transfer using Simple Burner]. And....don't use Windows Media Player. It's bloated. Give foobar2000 a look. Heck, even Winamp is better than WMP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevo Posted April 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 2, 2004 oh! but i though that if i record to windows media player at 160kps+ then the sound is this good (i.e. 160kps) and thats it. is it the wma format that you are saying is bad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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