Put 130 Songs on 1 CD!

[Kenneth]

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Greeting fellow music enthusiast.

I have taken on a new project (personal) to put my favorite music on
as few CDs as possible (with no noticeable quality loss). I thought I'd
share the knowledge.
Using a program like Easy CD Pro or something similar, grab the CD
audio tracks and record them to your hard drive as a wave file. Compress
the wave files with a program called l3enc.exe.

Example:
l3enc music.wav music.mp3 -hq -br 128000

Delete the huge wave file and record the .mp3 file to the CD. Use
Winplay3 to play the files back at CD quality.

The resulting MP3 files are about 1 meg per minute of music recorded
at 44100 samples, 16 bits, and stereo. If you can stand to loose 5 kilo-
hertz at the top, you can compress to about 750K per minute. This is
remarkable technology that has yet to be exploited. The only drawback,
is that you have to play the CDs on your computer (pentium or comparable
required). Just do like I did. Put a Hi-Fidelity system on you computers
sound card. I'm using a SB16 and it sounds like the real thing.

Maybe someday, Microsoft will implement a level 3 MPEG decoder for wave
files. And in a dream world, maybe CD-ROM player manufactures (stereo
system and car) will implement MPEG decoding for standard DA.

What do you think of my Idea?

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