Comment why? (Score 1) 61
Read the original article. The original dilemma was that the user wanted to capture the sound from an already existing RealMedia file, convert it to MP3, then send it to his Rio.
Other people have made comments much the same about RealMedia files and their horrible quality; no one disagrees with that. However, some people encode things in RA to begin with, and the end-user who wants to make NPR audio segments or something portable (e.g., in MP3 format) is left with no outlet. The problem is not how bad RA sounds; it's in how poorly it translates to other formats.
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Other people have made comments much the same about RealMedia files and their horrible quality; no one disagrees with that. However, some people encode things in RA to begin with, and the end-user who wants to make NPR audio segments or something portable (e.g., in MP3 format) is left with no outlet. The problem is not how bad RA sounds; it's in how poorly it translates to other formats.
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