Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

I am not sure, I hit send too quickly. I use Protools and Peak which 
are either Fraunhofer or LAME encoders... and I use the slowest 
conversion and the highest bit rate the client's delivery method will 
allow for.

For my personal use (listening copies on iPod) I use Apple's AAC or M4a 
encoding, and am happy with it - far happier than in the 
cassette-for-the-car days!

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Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
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On Sep 3, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Mike Richter wrote:

> > > Fraunhofer
> > i believe none edit native mp3 format. it has to go back to linear 
> > PCM (be de-coded), edited, then *re-encoded*.
> > you'd be better to work at 16/44 linear PCM  at all times...
> Some do minimal editing - splitting and joining files, for example - 
> without recoding. However, any substantial changes, even taking out 
> one click, will require recoding and the attendant losses.
>
> I'm not sure what Lou Judson was planning to write about the 
> Fraunhofer codec, but let me note my experience. It is the most 
> conservative of those I know, rolling off high frequencies explicitly 
> so that the inaccuracies and artifacts are not reproduced and 
> exacerbated. As a result, it is the least harmful on recoding.
>
> Other compressors I have tested appear to have better high-end 
> response but at the cost of artifacts and inaccurate reproduction 
> after the Fraunhofer's cutoff.
>
> There is no free lunch.