[PLUG-TALK] Digitizing Records on a Linux Box

Paul Mullen pm at nellump.net
Tue Feb 19 02:28:15 UTC 2008


On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 06:19:06PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> I don't understand why one would use a digital audio player as the
> source to create MP3s.

To play, not to create. Older portable MP3 players would routinely
choke on variable bit rate MP3s. At best, they'd be able to play the
file, but couldn't tell you how much time was left, wouldn't let you
seek back and forth, etc.

-- 
Paul



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