From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 25 20: 4:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 756C837BC99 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:04:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.219.234.36] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id aa792194 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:02:49 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA03180; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:03:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, iceberg@pobox.com Subject: Re: cdrecord and ATAPI burners Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:01:33 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <19991205112933.A88385@comp04.prc.uic.edu> <00022519405500.00930@gunnar.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <00022519405500.00930@gunnar.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00022523035702.02997@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold wrote: > When burning an audio CD, would you simply specify wav files as the source? > > What is the preferred format for sound source files? > > Gunnar > Just off the top of my head, and based on a little that I've absorbed here from osmosis: The advantage to using the MP3 format is more data recorded on the disk. The problem is, you need an MP3 player to listen to them. The advantage to .wav files is you can play them on a regular cd player. You can guess what the drawback is. -- Walter Brameld in·tel·lec·tu·al n. Someone who has been educated past his/her level of intelligence. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message