[78-L] 78s To Computers.

[joe@salerno.com]

There are/were attempts to make higher fidelity CDs, call super-CDs or 
some such, and audio DVDs. That may be why you are seeing occasionally 
references to higher than standard audio CD parameters. I don't know how 
these formats did in other countries, but in the US they have never made 
a big splash with the general public. They appeal to high end audio geeks.

Some of those other specs may have been comp rates for MP3 files, for 
which many rates are available, depending on the file size you want.

joe salerno

Chris Zwarg wrote:
>> For others out there:  Do standalone CD recorders offer differing sample rates that you can choose when recording analog material?  I know that my software offers up to 320 kb/sec (twice what is generally considered CD quality IIRC correctly) if you want no losses.  Mostly it is a matter of space on your hard drive I guess as to how much, and what quality you can store things at.
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> Not that I know of. "Audio CD" is a fixed industry standard (just like the 1 7/8 ips for cassette tapes mentioned elsewhere on this thread) and is defined as 44.1kHz 16bit 2channel. No other format can be played back by audio CD players, so it makes no sense for a standalone audio CD recorder to use different specs. If you want to save computer-recorded audio at different sampling and bit rates to a CD blank you have to use CD-ROM format. The claims occasionally seen on commercial audio CDs (like "24bit 96kHz") refer to the recording and mixing process only, the disc itself will contain 16bit 44.1kHz files like every other audio CD. Most CD-burner softwares convert automatically to audio-CD standard if fed differently formatted files.
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> Chris Zwarg 
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