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Category: mp3
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what parameters to use for “ripping” (converting) audio files to MP3
- bit rate: 223 kbps (VBR = variable bit rate)
- sample rate: 44,100 kHz
There had been a note sitting on my kitchen desk for months, scribbled on the back of a calendar page, seeking to get transferred over here.
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MP3 tags and file names
- IMHO file names should never ever contain anything else but only “printable ASCII” characters.
- letting music file names reflect the contents is sometimes just too much work, so sometimes I abbreviate them to just the track number
I just came across some Glenn Gould albums, and now the file names all look like 99.mp3. I first tried something better than that, but that was just PITA and I stopped it. I did improve and clean the track names themselves though. Maybe they are too long for the iPod now, but they display well in iTunes.
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how to browse music?
Today resp. just now I found “yet another time …“, that browsing my music library in iTunes / on the iPod / on the iPhone “by genre” is much more fun, then browsing by name on my file system – what a surprise!
Yet I still insist, that my music library has to be kept “by name” on the file system. Quite a contradiction, isn’t it?!? But browsing a huge amount of music, with lots of covers included, that definitely is fun. Have a nice weekend, all of you out there …