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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (138061)	1/29/2002 5:23:03 AM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

i find it amusing that you spend thousands of dollars on your audio equipment to get maximum fidelity and then go and spoil the experience by listening to heavily compressed music! the cheapest thing you can do to vastly improve your listening experience is to go buy a spare 100 gig drive for a couple hundred bucks to store your favorite music in lossless form. you can play the compressed files in winamp just like mp3s, with playlists, seek, etc. and there is no loss in quality. monkey's audio has a simple and flexible gui and compresses to lossless in a fraction of the time it takes to do a quality mp3. you can compress a whole album in a few minutes. of course it only makes sense to go lossless when you have the original cd available and you just want them on your puter for convenience. lossless won't improve the quality of mp3s that you download off the net. i'm not sure why anyone like you with plenty of money would want to download crappy sounding mp3s off the net (legally or illegaly) anyway. no mp3 matches the original cd for quality. people who think they are stealing cd quality music for free by downloading mp3s are deluding themselves. you get what you pay for. now of course it is possible to send perfect sounding cd tracks over the net, but those are quite a bit bigger than mp3s. about 6 times bigger. mp3s at 128kbps are only 11% of the original file size. almost 90% of the music is tossed out. 256kbps is much closer to cd quality and it is obviously twice as big--approx 22% of the original cd track. lossless will only give you about 60% of the original size although it can vary widely. some older music will compress to less than half the original. might want to look into the prospect...