| Re: [GMCnet] Dash Stereo with NO MOVING Parts [message #115711] |
Sat, 19 February 2011 14:39 |
KB
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In my case, I'm not as worried about the quality of the MP3 --- probably
couldn't tell the difference on the GMC's poor sound system. It's more the daunting
task of converting a very large collection from FLAC to something else. If I must go to
that much trouble, it'd be nice to keep the quality while adding portability.
Or better yet, find a FLAC-capable player.
There are some nice USB powered disk drives now of sufficient size to hold
the whole music collection as-is, if I could just find a car device to play it.
Might just have to resort to a "car-puter".
thanks,
Karen
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> There are several lossless encoding systems like FLAC, Ogg Vorbis (really) and then there is *.wav which is CD data with no compression at all. As an album in native format is about 640meg, you should be able to put 10 or so on a 8g SD card.
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> The level of loss when converting to MP3 is adjustable with most software. Unless you have a really impressive sound system, the mid-level does a great job for "road music" and a single cd can run 5+ hours. The best MP3 files (not what usually downloads cheap) are hard to tell from the original CD. My hearing has gone bad and lot of the high frequency response has been lost, but am still very sensitive to slew rate (wave shape) and sound image issues that escape many listeners.
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> Find a LAME MP3 encoder to play with, turn it up so it makes big files and you may just change your mind.
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> Matt
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Karen
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