Audio Survey

[ashben]

It would be great if you all could please submit your votes on one of the methods you wish/use the most:

1. MP3 Encoding (WAV 2 MP3)
2. MP3 Decoding (MP3 2 WAV)
3. CD Ripping (CD 2 WAV)
4. CD Burning (WAV 2 CD)
5. DirectAudio (MP3 2 Data-CD)

I need the info. for one of my projects http://www.broid.com

[Koolguy]

Well I use CD burning the most, almost every day. The rest of them I use quite often almost weekly.

What? I'm a music freak.. LOL


Ashben, your broid audio player is really nice right now. Can't wait till you get the next version out. Good work so far!

[Canuckkev]

Well I've done very little encoding, a bit of decoding for Flash movies(make wavs from mp3's to put in the movie), quite a bit of ripping, and a helluva lotta burning.

[Nick]

Originally posted by ashben
1. MP3 Encoding (WAV 2 MP3)
2. MP3 Decoding (MP3 2 WAV)
3. CD Ripping (CD 2 WAV)
4. CD Burning (WAV 2 CD)
5. DirectAudio (MP3 2 Data-CD)


I vote for 15 ;).

[Woofcat]

I think there's already too much software that does these things... You can't encode better than LAME, or rip better than EAC, or burn better than Nero... SSRC does resampling/dithering/etc as well as it can be done...

Unless this is targetted at newbies who don't care about quality as long as it has a pretty GUI?

[Canuckkev]

Is Nero a lot better than Easy CD Creator 5?

Also, I do agree. There are enough of the programs you listed to go around. Maybe try something new....don't have any ideas though.

[Coolin]

I do MP3 decoding and CD Burning the most. But I would rather not see these features in Broid as there are better programs out there who specialize in these areas. I'd rather have a good, solid, great sounding, high quality, MP3 player. Enough adjectives? ;)

[Gayowulf]

I do encoding quite a lot as well as decoding. (i work at a small recording studio.) I do some ripping, but mostly burning. When you say direct audio do you mean burning a storage disk for your mp3s? I do that very often

So basically i do it all, and with as few programs as possible; i would choose a program not for having all the options, but for the speed and ease of use.

[ashben]

I guess I should not concentrate on the encoding/decoding aspects atleast for now (maybe have a Lame/Blade frontend later-on). The player itself does not require any 3rd party drivers like DirectX, XAudio or WMP etc. Plus I have load of module-level fixes and improvements bundled in the next release (Beta 3) scheduled to be released this week. I'll post a short message when its live. Thanks guys!