Leyn

Ok, the terms "STEREO" and "JOINT STEREO" in Mp3's for example, refer to how the channel volumes are recorded.

 

It's a kind of difficult concept to explain but really all you need to know is that in Stereo audio there are two different channels being played at once, left and right and each of these channels will have different values as the sound levels fluctuate and the music is played.

 

In "STEREO" recording, two completely seperate values are stored and played through the two different channels, basically like this:

 

 

 

The "JOINT STEREO" is a much newer concept, however. It exploits the fact that a lot of the time, both channels have very similar signals and values being sent to them for playback and only records the difference from one channel as the values of the other channel.

Joint Stereo signal values are recorded something like this:

 

Except of course, it's much more complex than this, but this explanation was just to give you a basic idea of how the two methods differ.

Because of the way joint stereo works, it requires less bits to produce a certain quality level than standard stereo does.

You write: "Because of the way joint stereo works, it requires

less bits to produce a certain quality level than standard stereo does."

What happens when you choose for the "Joint" encoder setting?

Or the quality remains the same but the file size decreases, or

the file size remains the same and the quality is increased.

Can you give an URL where this is explained in more detail?

Can you take action, so that this gets in the help pages?

Do you have the paying versions? Which version?

Perhaps you also know what "Force" means. The sentence

about it in the help page clarifies nothing, it only makes the

mystery greater.

Ripping makes a copy of the tracks, often with loss of information.

What is meant by ripping is that you are stealing the copyrights.

In Belgium you are allowed to posses one copy of a copyrighted work

like a audio CD. E.g. 1:you buy a audio CD. you are allowed to make

one verbatim copy on a writable CD (for example for your weekend

home). You are also allowed to rip

the cda tracks to for example mp3, download them on your mp3

player, and listen to them. E.g. 2: you rent an audio CD from a

media library. You are not allowed to make a verbatim copy

because the original belongs to the library. You are also not allowed

to rip to mp3 because then you rip, steal the cost of the audio CD

from the author of the CD. You are not allowed to make a copy because it is

not you who have bought the audio CD. If you want to listen to

the CD or near equivalent mp3 tracks you must buy the audio CD.

By copying, you rip or steal revenues from the author/singer.

Dear,

I press the button "setting" in

Express Rip. There, I take "custom"

and set the string to {%n2 - %t}

Express Rip handles this wrongly.

E.g. track 01 with name "Temp pour

nous" is written out as

"01 . Temp pour nous.aac".

Instead of a hyphen, a point is

written out. This is a bug. In fact,

the point is written out by default,

the specified hyphen is simply ignored.

If you rip a CD it would be better

to write in the "Extract CD Track(s)"

window

Loading "Perles de pluie" instead of

Loading Perles de pluie.

I tried the album "Jardin Secret"

of "Axelle Red". This a French

singer and her songs carry French

names with accents. Express Rip

is handling these accents wrong.

E.g.: "Romantique à mort". In the

track table of Express Rip, the

à is gone. In the filename that is

written out, the same is true.

In the "Extract CD Track(s)" it is

correct. These are two bugs. The

same is true for the track

"Ce don't le monde à besoin", "Naïve"

and "Fruits défendu".

If we consider the same CD some other

thing are bugy. It is a CD with data

on it next to the song tracks. If the

CD is loaded, and you start Express Rip,

he says "No CDDB match found". In the FAQ

it is written this is the case because

it is not a proper audio CD or because

the CD is not currently listed in the

freeDB database. This is wrong. Express

should distinguich between both cases

and write out a correct error message.

In this case this would be that it is

not a proper audio CD, and he should

access the freedb database and identify

the tracks. When the CD is ejected, and

loaded again when Express Rip is already

running he says correctly that it is not

a proper audio CD and displays the names

of the tracks (he has accessed freedb).

This should also happen when Express Rip

is started when the CD is already loaded.

A bugfixed version for download

would be great.

Best regards,

Francky