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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Copy Protection, Eat My Shorts! |
| Date | Thu, 9 Oct 2003 16:45:56 -0400 |
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See? I was right. I AM no technophile...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Copy Protection, Eat My Shorts!
> >I'm no technophile, but I believe the secret is that you want to
"extract",
> >as opposed to "rip", the tracks. Copy protection is designed to prevent
> >ripping. Extracting gets you wav files; ripping gets you mp3s. Of
course
> >once you have wav files, you can use MusicMatch Jukebox (there's a free
> >version) to convert to mp3 at the bit rate of your choosing
>
> 'Ripping' and 'Extracting' are exactly the same thing. Compressing a .wav
> file to a .mp3 file is 'Encoding'.
>
> Some software is better than others at ripping (EAC) - but they all must
> rip/extract before encoding to mp3 (some do it behind the scenes).
>
> Lee Elliott
> www.anotherplanet.ca
>
>
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