From: Moloney, Mark (Mark.Moloney at domain emea.gateway.com)
Date: Tue 11 Jul 2000 - 13:53:04 IST
Kate wrote:
> Ars Technica mention[0] some plugin for WinAmp
> that replaces (by guessing, I suppose) various
> harmonics that are lost in the MP3 compression
> phase. Don't suppose anyone knows if there is a
> linux version of these plugins ?
That's possibly "The Wow Thing" - www.wowthing.com - which is actually very
good at adding bass and body to mp3 playback in winamp. The winamp plugin is
free. They also have a hardware gizmo to do the same to anything for a
price.
I'm pretty sure there is no linux port of that plugin, but I guess the
hardware version will work on anything.
I also don't know how the thing works - whether it really does guess at the
lost bits using some sort of wonderful amazing technophonic guessing
algorithm or is simply (simply?!) a software subharmonic synthesiser plus
some stereo "spatializing" I can't say...
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-----Original Message-----
From: John P. Looney (Kate) [mailto:jplooney-ilug at domain online.ie]
Sent: Tuesday, 11 July, 2000 13:01
To: ilug at domain linux.ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] mp3 encoder & decoder
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:38:45PM +0100, Martin Feeney mentioned:
> You'll have to cut your mp3 collection into 74 minute sections and burn
> each section of files to a seperate CD. Audio CDs are raw 44100kHz signed
> (2s complement) 16bit shorts (motorola) with 2 channels. cdrecord will
> take in wav or au files so you'll have to convert your mp3s to this format
> first. mpg123 should do the job for you.
Ars Technica mention[0] some plugin for WinAmp that replaces (by
guessing, I suppose) various harmonics that are lost in the MP3
compression phase. Don't suppose anyone knows if there is a linux version
of these plugins ?
Kate
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