Re: [microsound] Audio Compression

[Sander Bolk <sander.bolk@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are higher quality setting possible for MP3's! I create MP3's using
digital performer. Using the L.A.M.E encoder I get reasonably good results!

Good luck.

2006/5/2, Christopher Murphy <chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Dear All,
>
> After a couple of quiet years, we're uploading new content to Fallt
> (www.fallt.com). As part of this process we're re-converting our
> existing back catalogue, in particular the entire 'invalidObject
> Series' (Kim Cascone, Richard Chartier, Taylor Deupree,  Stephan
> Mathieu, Pimmon, Pita etc.), into high bit rate format.
>
> We're about to start creating new MP3s for the website from the
> original Fallt masters for all of our audio releases and want to
> convert them in as high a quality as possible.
>
> We've started converting everything to MP3 format using iTunes at 320
> KBPs, Variable Bit Rate, which is the maximum quality iTunes supports.
>
> Before we finalise converting the rest of the back catalogue we'd
> welcome some thoughts on the best approach to supplying Fallt's audio
> in compressed format. What would everyone suggest?
>
> Obviously there are more options available now - MP3, AAC, FLAC -
> than there were when we originally distributed many of our MP3s. If
> you could choose, what would you choose?
>
> If you'd like to preview what we've done so far, there are a number
> of releases available here:
>
> http://www.fallt.com/mp3s
>
> Feel free to email off-list - chris@xxxxxxxxx - meanwhile, thanks for
> your suggestions in advance.
>
> Best,
>
> Christopher
>
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