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Re: Well - filters yea, mp3 clipping boo

1999-06-17 by Mark Pulver

Dave Bradley (01:37 PM 6/17/99) wrote:

 >The
 >filters sounded great, what I could hear of them. I hear this horrible,
 >horrible clipping distortion in 90% of the files on the MOTM site, including
 >these. I mean really really bad.
 >
 >Does anyone else hear this? Is it just my crappy player? If so, I'll get
 >another one. If not, we all need to chip in and figure out how to help Paul
 >get clean files up on the website, cause those are some of his best
 >advertisements.

Your browser may be "cooking" the files (thinking that they're text and 
inserting CR's before every LF). You can roll your own stripper (uncooker) 
or just grab this:

     http://watson2.cs.binghamton.edu/~jtesorie/index.html

(for Windows - Mr. Outlook user. :)

For the Mac folks, I hear that MusicVac works:

     http://musicvac.macamp.com/


Mark

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