Re: [TANGO-L] Tandas at the speed of a mouse click

["Kohlhaas, Bernhard" <bernhard.kohlhaas @SAP.COM>]

Stephen Brown wrote:

> >A good DJ would have prearranged tandas ready to go.

> I agree.  Apparently, the djs that Alberto wrote about enjoy the
> flexibility of programming their tandas on the fly and do not have
> prearranged tandas.

I have over 100 tandas in M3U playlist files, one playlist file for each
tanda 
with a cortina at the end. Occasionally I might change a tanda on the
fly, but
usually only to exchange one song for another similar one.

A DJ has to be very good to create a good tanda from scratch.


>>[A]bout MP3 sound quality:

> >Using a quality MP3 encoder (LAME, perhaps) and 224K, 256K or even
384K
> >VBR encoding makes an audible improvement.

> I wonder how many djs rip at these relatively high rates or have the
> software for VBR.  VBR is not used by the most common MP3 prgorams,
such
> as i-tunes.

I'm not sure, if i-tunes is all that common. In any case the German
computer
magazine c't once tested, how different song formats and bitrates
changed
compared to the original. If I recall the results correctly, a 192kpbs
mp3 file
was pretty much indistinguishable from the original.

Mine are ripped using VBR. The resulting bitrate is usually somwhere
between 170kpbs 
for very old recordings with limited frequency spectrum and 250 kbps for
new recordings.

> > You can explore other formats like Ogg or FLAC.  Some are even
lossless
> > compression formats.

FLAC is lossless. OGG isn't, but at the same bitrate as MP3 it seems to
be
closer to the orignal.


> Christian wrote:
> >mp3 is based on psychoacoustics ...
> >... which presumes that hearing (and sound) is flawless.
> >[appearantly people with perfect hearing have no problems, but those
> >with limited hearing (the majority) do have!]
> >neither one is right for old tango music.

The assumption that people with not so perfect hearing find MP3 more
flawed 
than people with perfect hearing sounds a bit strange. Christian, how
did you come
to that conclusion or read about it.

> Doesn't this depend on the bit rate as well as the quality of the
sound
> card?

Probably more so on the bit rate. After all I doubt that most amplifiers
and
speakers are of audiophile quality.

Bernhard