[mythtv-users] A prediction is coming true, faster than I thought

[David Brodbeck]

On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Tom Dexter wrote:

>> From: David Brodbeck
>>
>> On Jul 18, 2007, at 7:28 AM, Tom Dexter wrote:
>>> Ironically, the record industry has done a great job of creating a
>>> situation where one can get a better quality product illegally.
>>
>> Eh?  Last time I tried one of the illegal file sharing networks, it
>> was full of badly-encoded 128 kbps MP3s.  Finding anything at a
>> decent bitrate (I consider 160 kbps the bare minimum) was just about
>> impossible.
>>
>
> That may well be...I don't use them.  For myself I rip from CDs and  
> encode
> with lame using "-abr 192".

Ah.  It was your reference to illegality that confused me. I don't  
consider making a copy of a CD I own, for my own use, to be illegal.