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zooter
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Posted : Jan 31, 2005 11:25
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As you all know these days, all sorts of formats can be played in all sorts of players. But when i play an mp3 in Windows Media Player the quality is very bad. But the same thing in Winamp is really good..
Has anybody ever noticed this? or is it just psychological??. If not, what is the explanation? Something to do with decoding method in the 2 players?
Secondly, i normally listen to http://www.di.fm thru Windows Media Player, but since the link was down, i tried Winamp version of the site. Even though the quality was supposedly better (92kbps as compared to 56kbps in Windows Media Player, and yes, when you click on the 32kbps you get to listen in 56kbps  ), the sound was very bad. I had to turn on EQ & set the preset to "Headphones" to actually make it listenable. Any explanations?
sorry for the long (and perhaps useless) questions...and oh, btw, RealPlayer sucks! don't ever use it
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WAVELOGIX
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Posted : Jan 31, 2005 15:14
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u are right zooter , windows media player and winamp do have differnt algorithms to decode the mp3 , i too noticed this for my self ... |
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XrTC
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Posted : Jan 31, 2005 15:14
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i have a different opinion about real player... i use it all the time for streaming audio. actually it's the only program that doesn't "buffer" all the time. with winamp and media player i get very short pauses or long pauses with 'communicating'... :S
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Lithium
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Posted : Jan 31, 2005 19:16
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i have no problems running mp3 in windows media player, either my tracks, or other psytrance tracks. try to download all windows media player upgrades, and all the codecs, and it should work just fine, at least it works for me.
i also think it might have something to do with the programs used to encode from .wav to .mp3 cause some of them are really bad, feeling up the tracks will strange noises.. |
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Pavel
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Posted : Jan 31, 2005 21:31
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Interesting. Never gave it a thought, but you might be on something.
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Elad
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Posted : Feb 1, 2005 01:34
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zooter
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Posted : Feb 1, 2005 07:50
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Lithium: It does not give any problems...the quality is just different in both cases (and remember we're using the same mp3 in both cases!)
Xrtc: I downloaded realplayer gold to try & play some realmedia files (southpark actually  ) and it said needs to download plugins to play realmedia files (wtf???)....
so i finally used Realplayer 8 to do the same. Interestingly www.oldversion.com has older version of some popular things...worth a check |
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XrTC
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Posted : Feb 1, 2005 20:49
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zooter i have real one player 10. it works fine and i think it's the best when it comes to streaming audio.. .
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Hayez
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Posted : Feb 2, 2005 00:53
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On 2005-01-31 11:25, zooter wrote:
Secondly, i normally listen to http://www.di.fm thru Windows Media Player, but since the link was down, i tried Winamp version of the site.
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I use iTunes for the same station and get 96kbps, never had any problems with quality.
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Spindrift
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Posted : Feb 2, 2005 01:45
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fregle
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Posted : Feb 2, 2005 20:30
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whoa, spindrift, thaaaaaaaank uuuuuuuu |
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