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How to encode collection

Hey all,

I'm sorry if this message seems like you've seen it a bunch of times.

I'm a 15 year old who is going to start driving within 2 weeks. Along with my new drivers license I'm going to acquire a RioVolt SP90 MP3 CD player that I've been drooling over for who knows how long. I'm getting ready to endode 200+ disks onto CDs to enjoy my whole collection on the road.

Now the only problem is how exactly to do this!

I've been visiting this site and sites like it for quite some time. I used to encode using --r3mix for just listening to on the computer but then I switched over to the -dm presets. I gotta say I was really impressed with the --alt preset normal Dibrom put out. I was amazed to see songs like "A Praise Chorus" by Jimmy Eat World that were once 260 or so using --r3mix drop to around 210. That would be a much better way to encode MP3s in great quality but yet still have small enough file sizes.

What preset should I use to encode my collection? I plan on listening to these MP3s in my car about 90% of the time and the other 10% in non-critical areas like on bus rides or in the back seat on family vacations. I can hear the awful problems caused by bad encoding but I definitely wouldn't say I'm an audiophile. I'd just like to have really great sounding MP3s that don't sound audibly different than the CD would. I listen to just about every type of music but nothing that is WAY too demanding like electronic music. I do have the Fatboy Slim album with "Kalifornia" on it and I know that sounds awful sometimes so that'll probably be my only encoding where something like --alt preset insane would be necessary.

I'd also like to start encoding right now since I only have about 3 weeks until my b-day and the only time I'm not busy is on the weekends. I've been hearing rumblings about a 3.90 stable coming out one of these days but I would much rather just use whatever the best build is that is out right now along with the right presets.

Also I'm not sure how the RioVolt 90 displays the song titles. I know it uses ID3 encoding so should I just make the ID3s using another program or forget about them altogether and just make a concise file name to address them by. Any advice from owners would be very great.

I know this is a really long message and if you are still reading this I really thank you. Please help an upcoming encoding geek some help. 

Aaron

How to encode collection

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Originally posted by Trippin Billie
I gotta say I was really impressed with the --alt preset normal Dibrom put out. ... I can hear the awful problems caused by bad encoding but I definitely wouldn't say I'm an audiophile.


In this case I would recommend that you use Dibrom's new --alt-preset standard in the new rev7. I'ts brilliant and the only concern in your case could be filesize. (I'll guess 8 albums could be on one cd.)

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Originally posted by Trippin Billie

Also I'm not sure how the RioVolt 90 displays the song titles. I know it uses ID3 encoding so should I just make the ID3s using another program or forget about them altogether and just make a concise file name to address them by. Any advice from owners would be very great.


I have the good ol' Rio Volt and doesn't use the ID3-tag at all.

Here's what I do: I rip with EAC and let it get the info about the album via the internet. Then I set EAC to extract the tracks with the track # and the track title so the file will be: '01 The Lifting.wav'. (The track # is important so you'll keep the songs in the right order.)

Then I make a folder for all the different albums (like 'REM: Reveal' ) and burn the cd using these folders. It's very easy to navigate the Rio Volt this way. Try it!

have fun, stoff

How to encode collection

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The rio volt does not support ID3 tags? I beg to differ as mine seems to perform this function just fine.  what firmware version are you using?

-Jeffrey

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The rio volt does not support ID3 tags? I beg to differ as mine seems to perform this function just fine. what firmware version are you using?


I just said that I don't use it. But yes the support is there, it just that I'm not into fancy stuff like that 

regards stoff (a happy Rio Volt owner)