on 10/31/00 3:46 AM, Irene McC at substar@iafrica.com wrote:
quoted 20 lines Just a general MP3 related question: a lot of MP3's I'm listening to> Just a general MP3 related question: a lot of MP3's I'm listening to
> are distorted, either at the top end which clips, or the bass which
> just goes "bbsshhh" - and looking at the actual curve, it makes
> standing squared waves.
>
> Presumably this is not due to the extraction, but comes from the
> original source - is it because people use huge compression on their
> sound files? Is there any way around it? Even if I convert my own
> CD's to MP3, I cannot predict which ones will come out distorted
> (and many do). Selecting the "normalize" function does not seem
> to help - sometimes it even boots the gain.
>
> I
> *
> np : Godspeed's Levez your skinny mitts...
>
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