Question?

[dacalion]

Most of you know that I've been doing some intense sound testing with converting music to mp3's. This is what I've found... It's not so much the conversion where I'm losing so much sound quality, it's the playback. I converted a song to mp3, then played it back using Windows Media, it sounded like crap (to my standards) then I played it back in Audition and Ozone and it sounded great.

My question to you high techies...Is there a logical reason for this other than the norm? I guess I'm looking for a technical reply for this.

EDIT: I didn't do anything but play the song back in all 3.

 

[thedreampolice]

Do you have all the extra playback features enabled on windows media player? Like the SRS, EQ etc? Try playing it back with VLC

 

[dacalion]

I cant find vlc!?!?!

 

[thedreampolice]

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

 

[lion-ucs]

Ugh, why are you bothering with WMP?
It sucksssssssss

I mean really. It sucks major balls, I'd rather use real player than that POS and I HATE Real Player.

Winamp is miles better, Songbird, Amarock, I use VLC but mainly for video.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


But you know what? That's brings up a VERY good point. There are a LOT of ppl out there saying mp3 sucks and talk so much about the quality loss and everything. I never thought that they could very well be listening in a media player with a terrible engine. (Probably why I cant tell, cause I been using Winamp forever)

Windows still dominates the OS market and WMP comes with Windows, so it probably dominates the media player market being that majority of users not only wont bother looking for a different media player, but probably doesnt even KNOW that there are tons of FREE ones that'll make you explore how to uninstall WMP.

Hell, most ppl still use Internet Explorer because they dont know that other browsers even exist, let alone better ones.

 

[dacalion]

I like WMP mainly because I have a Sony mp3 player and they just work very well together. When I transfer music from my PC to my mp3 player, wmp makes it as easy as drag and drop. I get the album cover, album titles and track titles all in one smooth pop.

But I do see your point, it DOES suck as far as sound goes. The ease of doing anything on it is whats appealing. I am gonna stop using it to listen to my audio files though.

 

[lion-ucs]

Winamp has a media sync

Not sure how well it fairs for any sony mp3 players as I tend to look away from sony when it comes to portable media. Have to look into it.

Songbird also has media sync (was made by a few ex-winamp employees)

 

[dacalion]

i'll check into it!

 

[dacalion]

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

I guess my problem is that the only music that I really listen to on my pc is my personal music or when you guys make beats. When I listen to an album or whatever, I use my mp3 player.

As for the testing...I use wmp to listen to a beat right before I upload it to make sure that everything is ok but I'm gonna stop doing that. I will check out vlc but I've already got foobar and mp3hd. I really like foobar because it's the only player that I've got that plays FLAC files.

Speaking of FLAC, it really kills me when people go thru the trouble of encoding music to flawless but the way they record it is garbage. Like I really need some flawless crackle, pops and horrible equalization.

 

[lion-ucs]

Speaking of FLAC, it really kills me when people go thru the trouble of encoding music to flawless but the way they record it is garbage. Like I really need some flawless crackle, pops and horrible equalization.

Haha! I hear you on that one
I'd much rather a top notch mp3 @ 128 than a crappily mixed lossless song.


Foobar, I've heard good things. I haven't tried myself.

Pretty much all the major media players should play flac, or at least have a plugin to add the ability.

 

[dacalion]

Yeah, foobar is pretty dope and it will be even doper after I figure out how to change the skin, you should check it out.