General Chat / Mp3zzzz

I have a 40gb drive with 20gb partioned for just music and videos.

9.75gb

Music : 5.17gb (94 hours)
Videos : 4.58gb

Theres also various programs aswell on the drive, like Media player and things.

Since I re-installed Kaz three days ago, I've downloaded 433MB worth of songs... on 56k.

Ahaha.

Low quality.

Not really - 176kbps Real Audio sounds slightly better than 192kbps MP3 - so 132kbps isn't that much of a drop below (although, it is a drop). 64kbps actually sounds really good - well, bad handling of vocals, but really good handling of instruments.

Anyways...

Real Audio generally sounds better than MP3 to me - don't know why, probably just the way it drops audio. RealAudio is a lot fuller, richer and you can hear the complexity of the music far better than with MP3 (which is good when, like me, you listen to a lot of very complex music).

Yeah...

I saw a show about Mpeg compression, and it drops audio that is at a lower volume than other audio. I think RealAudio just drops highs and lows (which, up until a point, are more-or-less inaudible) until it gets it down to the designated size.

But, I don't know the true story on RealAudio - just a guess, based upon what I've heard actually trying it out.

While we're here, anyone know how to generate an HTML Playlist from Winamp?

Since I re-installed Kaz three days ago, I've downloaded 433MB worth of songs... on 56k.

^Wants his parents to get fined.

If the RIAA isn't BSing, that is...

Kai