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NETMD Recording settings via Media Player

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stevo

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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?

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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.

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