[vorbis] [OT] Just had to vent...

Nalin Savara nsavara at vsnl.net
Fri Nov 14 10:58:42 PST 2003



Just curious... what are some of the programs you're using on windows and
linux ? Which you find substantially better than what's available on Mac..

Do Reply...
NS
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From: "Paul E" <>
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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] [OT] Just had to vent...

<p>> Andrew Greenburg wrote:
>
> >I was doing a search for Mac OS cd audio extraction with
error-correction,
> >and stumbled upon an awe-inspiring collection of misinformation from last
> >year:
> >http://www.macslash.org/AskMacSlash/02/09/14/0257246.shtml
> >
> >My favorite bit is the part about Audio CDs being composed of AIFF files
> >that can be easily copied bit-for-bit perfect with no error-correction
> >algorithm.
> >
> I don't want to bash on Mac users, but the notion that Macs are so far
> superior to PCs for working with audio was created by people like the
> fellow who said that audio CDs are a bunch of AIFF files and that he
> specifically states that audio CDs do have compression.  Ever wonder why
> 700MB CDs hold 80 minutes of music but a 700MB wav is 69 minutes long?
> (44100 samples x 16 bit per sec / 1024 [kbits] / 8 [kilobytes] * 2
> [stereo] = 172.26kbytes/sec, 700MB [716.800 kbytes] / 172.26kbytes / 60
> [seconds] = 69.35 minutes)
>
> These people (I'm not referring to all Mac users) speak with no
> knowledge.  But apparently he knows enough to hurt himself since he does
> know about D/A Converts and clock jitter.  I've done music on Mac and on
> PC and the PC wins hands down.  Some of the programs I use the most
> aren't even made on Mac (or Linux unfortunately).
>
> Paul
>
>
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