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I am learning more and more about mp3's, but do want to learn about the
bitrates, too. I frequent a shoutcast radio station that plays at a
bitrate of 56k. Is there any possible way to download songs from said
station, and change the bitrate of the songs so they sound close to cd
quality?

thanks for any help!

Rick
snafu1@yahoo.com

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snafu1@yahoo.com wrote:

> I am learning more and more about mp3's, but do want to learn about the
> bitrates, too. I frequent a shoutcast radio station that plays at a
> bitrate of 56k. Is there any possible way to download songs from said
> station, and change the bitrate of the songs so they sound close to cd
> quality?
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> Rick
> snafu1@yahoo.com

There may be software that could let you download streaming media to
your hard disk; you have to search since the software would likely not
be for sale.

You cannot resample a mp3 file to improve the sound quality. You can
certainly play with the tone controls, though.

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www.hydrogenaudio.com

Best info on bit rates and such.

You cannot really improve on the MP3. If info has been compromised
in the encoding you cannot put back lost info, resolution etc.

Dennis



<snafu1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news1k6pk01cbp@news3.newsguy.com...
>I am learning more and more about mp3's, but do want to learn about the
> bitrates, too. I frequent a shoutcast radio station that plays at a
> bitrate of 56k. Is there any possible way to download songs from said
> station, and change the bitrate of the songs so they sound close to cd
> quality?
>
> thanks for any help!
>
> Rick
> snafu1@yahoo.com

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My apologies. That link should have been:

www.hydrogenaudio.org

Dennis


"Dennis Moore" <dmoore@bham.rr.com> wrote in message
news1nqim0joi@news2.newsguy.com...
> www.hydrogenaudio.com
>
> Best info on bit rates and such.
>
> You cannot really improve on the MP3. If info has been compromised
> in the encoding you cannot put back lost info, resolution etc.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
> <snafu1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news1k6pk01cbp@news3.newsguy.com...
>>I am learning more and more about mp3's, but do want to learn about the
>> bitrates, too. I frequent a shoutcast radio station that plays at a
>> bitrate of 56k. Is there any possible way to download songs from said
>> station, and change the bitrate of the songs so they sound close to cd
>> quality?
>>
>> thanks for any help!
>>
>> Rick
>> snafu1@yahoo.com

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On 20 Mar 2005 16:01:56 GMT, in article <d1k6pk01cbp@news3.newsguy.com>,
snafu1@yahoo.com stated:
>
>I am learning more and more about mp3's, but do want to learn about the
>bitrates, too. I frequent a shoutcast radio station that plays at a
>bitrate of 56k. Is there any possible way to download songs from said
>station,

Yes. I know that, at least for the Mac running OS X, there is shareware
available that will record the "radio stations" streams that you can get on
iTunes. It will even record multiple streams simultaneously and divide up each
streams for you into individual "bite size" mp3s of the songs being played.
(Whether or not this is legal, though, is an open issue -- the record labels
will likely assert that its not only illegal but monstrously immoral.)

>and change the bitrate of the songs so they sound close to cd
>quality?

No, you can't add information that isn't there in the first place. And 56 kbps
is going to sound quite rank. However, there are a number of iTunes radio
stations that stream at 128 kbps and a small number that go above that rate, so
if your internet connection has enough bandwidth and storage isn't a problem you
can get better sound.