Waddup everyone-
I make hip hop beats and sample from records. I am moving to thailand and I wanna burn a bunch of cds that I have to my external drive so that I can load them up and sample from them... (like I would witha record).
I dont know much about the different fomats of sound and all that and so my question is, how do I take a cd and put it on my comp so that when i go to sample the song, it is of good sound qaulity? mp3 is supposed to be pretty bad right?? what is the best format and how do I get songs from a cd into that format? lemme know whats good
thanks
Moving to Thailand- SOUND FORMATS!
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- KVRist
- 74 posts since 27 Nov, 2006
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- KVRAF
- 16861 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
With bitrates above 200 (max is 320 I think) MP3 isn't too bad... OGG is slightly better.
You can use cdex to convert a whole CD to MP3 files.
You can use cdex to convert a whole CD to MP3 files.
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- Tunesmith
- 2889 posts since 12 Mar, 2002 from Toronto
you can look at flac too
not as big a savings in space as mp3 320 though
not as big a savings in space as mp3 320 though
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 74 posts since 27 Nov, 2006
is mp3 considered pretty good? what about OGG? how do i convert to OGG? plus, when i import an mp3 into pro tools, it comes in stereo so I can choose only left or right, is there a way to get it in mono?
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- KVRian
- 868 posts since 7 May, 2002 from Sydney, Australia
If you're working with PT : PT won't import OGG, so stick with mP3s at 320, or the original aif files from the CD (but that will take 10 x memory space of MP3)
Re the stereo file thing - once you've imported the file(s), drag them on to stereo tracks so that you get both left and right.
Re the stereo file thing - once you've imported the file(s), drag them on to stereo tracks so that you get both left and right.
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- KVRAF
- 2278 posts since 8 Apr, 2003
IIRC there is an issue with MP3s with regards to use as samples because of the way the encoding will pad out the frames. While not a major issue it makes it a pain because it may give you extra space on either side of your sample so you will have to realign it manually. OGG format doesn't have this problem. There was an in-depth discussion of this in the Tracktion forum a long time ago if someone cares to dig it up.
If you're wanting to copy the audio files and then chop them up later for samples I would personally get as big a hard drive as you can afford then copy the CDs in lossless format using either Monkey's Audio (APE) or WMA-Lossless. In my experience those both compress better than FLAC and the others. WMA-Lossless has the added advantage in that it can be read by any DirectShow-aware program so you won't have to fiddle with extra decoding steps to read the files.
If you're wanting to copy the audio files and then chop them up later for samples I would personally get as big a hard drive as you can afford then copy the CDs in lossless format using either Monkey's Audio (APE) or WMA-Lossless. In my experience those both compress better than FLAC and the others. WMA-Lossless has the added advantage in that it can be read by any DirectShow-aware program so you won't have to fiddle with extra decoding steps to read the files.