Re: CD Quality???
  By: Neall Mercado to Jason Vierik on Fri Jun 27 2003 05:55 pm

 >  JV> I burn MP3 CDs all the time on my computer, and then play them on my
 >  JV> Sony MP3 car stereo.  I can tell no difference between the 128Kbps MP3
 >  JV> files and an audio CD.   ???
 > 
 > I understand that Jason. If you can tell no difference between those audio
 > formats from each other, therefore you can surely say that 128Kbps MP3 audio
 > is a CD-quality format.
 > 
 > But the fact is: Some portion of the audio information (or the waveform) on
 > the uncompressed format will be lost after converting it into MP3.  Some
 > decoders were able to fill-up that lost part using their own proprietary
 > interpolation technique, but still...it is not the exact information stored 
 > the original uncompressed format.  We can safely say that the MP3 sounds
 > like an audio CD (or NEAR-CD), but not CD-quality -- technically speaking.
 > 
 > However, were you really able to burn an MP3 CD that can be read by the
 > Sony MP3 car stereo using your computer's CD burner?  I think those units ha
 > their own proprietary format.

Yes, I burn MP3 CDS all the time on my computer and listen to them all the
time..  I fit about 120 songs on 1 CD..  I use easy CD Creator for win/xp.  My
Car MP3 player supports the JOLIET format, which is what I use to create them.

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