Inability to make a audio cd of mp3s

[ccrawford at acb.org]

Janina,

	Actually, you were making the point that I was making i
n my message.

-- Charlie.

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> No, they can't possibly sound better converted from mp3 to wav. It's an
> old story, you can't make silk from a sow's ear.
> 
> The mp3 format is a compressed format. Aspects of the original recording
> have been thrown away in the compression process. That information is
> gone forever. You can't magically get the richer details available in an
> uncompressed format like wav by converting from mp3 to wav.
> 
> This is also an example of how dissengenuous the recording industry is
> over peer to peer file sharing. The copies being shared, for the most
> part, are no where near the quality of the recordings shrink wrapped in
> the music store. It's not as they say, that every digital copy is an
> exact duplicate of the original. That's just balderdash. And there are
> many many more ways to make an inexact digital copy, just as there have
> long been ways to make an extremely accurate analog copy of analog
> media.
> 
> But, I diagress yet again.
> 
> 
> Charles Crawford writes:
> > From: ccrawford at acb.org
> > 
> > 	I don't really know the answer to your question but it brings up a 
> > question of my own.  Given the dynamics of mp3 recording, how does 
> > converting them to a wave file do any good?  Do they sound any better?
> > 
> > -- charlie.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Patricia Logan wrote:
> > 
> > >      Hi!  I have gotten a lot of mp3s from a friend.  I 
> > > transformed them to wav files using mpg123 as described on this 
> > > list.  When I tried to copy these onto a disc using cdrecord in 
> > > -dao mode I got the message that the tracks had to be passed, 
> > > having to be lumtiples of some number which I can't remember. How 
> > > difficult will it be to dealwith this?
> > > 
> > >      Pat Logan
> > > 
> > > 
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