I have a dell jukebox MP3 player, is there any way to play this thru my home stero system?

4/30/2006 11:41:02 AM

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4/30/2006 12:26:00 PM

you can get a line that plugs into the headphone jack on the jukebox and the line-in on the stereo

but you'll probably get some nerds explaining why you shouldnt use mp3 for a home stereo

4/30/2006 12:31:55 PM

heh, as long as the mp3's are of good quality, most people won't notice.

4/30/2006 1:10:42 PM

MP3's arent going to be good quality you would want to use WAV files instead of MP3's. But to answer your questions it can be easily done for example I have a radioshack plug that goes from a head phone jack to red/white RCA connectors.

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4/30/2006 1:21:04 PM

4/30/2006 1:27:16 PM

^ you can get something like that in the form of a y-cable adapter. that allows better felxibility and ease in placing the ipod and cable. you also wouldn't need to buy an adapter+rca cables, just the y cable of the correct length.

4/30/2006 2:08:43 PM

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"MP3's arent going to be good quality you would want to use WAV files instead of MP3's"

I think its obvious that BlackDog doesnt know what he's talking about, except for the plug thing, that'll work

4/30/2006 2:38:14 PM

I use an MP101 + Twonkyvision to play MP3's on my stereo. Sounds pretty good to me. Certainly comparable to CD's.

Of course, I'm half deaf.

4/30/2006 3:53:11 PM

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"I think its obvious that BlackDog doesnt know what he's talking about, except for the plug thing, that'll work"

Alright listen buddy I trade live music all the time and the standard is WAV files no one will take MP3 files on disc in a trade. Ask anyone in the trading scene. Also do you wonder why every taper at every show records in WAV format?

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4/30/2006 3:57:56 PM

mp3's are compact b/c they remove the harmonics and really high frequency stuff that are responsible for physical effects from listening to music... however unless you have a VERY expensive setup, you won't notice the different...

mp3's are great for 99% of the population as long as you use a good 128k+ sampling rate.

4/30/2006 3:58:24 PM

if you're talking about sound quality.. go with FLAC, Monkey, Shorten(which is another widely used codec in trading), Apple Lossless.. of course the Dell won't be able to play those formats, although I think it does play the WMA lossless.. but those formats are far better, and more efficient Lossless codecs then the WAV format.

sticking with mp3's.. stay at or above 192k if you want CD quality. At least 128k for AAC format.

5/1/2006 3:36:48 AM

^ ^^
What they said.

FLAC is wonderful, and on a higher end system you can notice the difference. If however you don't have a really expensive system then the lossless stuff is most likely unescessary (also if you're used to listening to 128 kbit mp3's you shouldn't bother most likely.) Most of my friends can't tell the difference between FLAC and 192 kbit mp3's even on my nice headphones and stereo, although I sure can. If the mp3's you're listening to now are fine for you, then don't worry about what any of us audiophiles say.

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5/1/2006 6:22:42 AM

BlackDog why use WAV? its the largest audio format out there, and with no tagging support. Yeah, everyone records to wav since that is the basic raw audio format, no shit. It sounds like you still have some stuff to learn, as well as this "live music scene" of yours.

Why dont you use FLAC, or some other lossless codec. Its understandable not to want to use a lossy audio codec for live music, but why no compression at all? ridiculous! Just as ^ and ^^ posted, there are several other lossless codecs, take your pick man.

All of my personal MP3s are 256kbps VBR encoded with LAME 3.96.1, a far step above the "standard" 128kbps MP3s, but there's no reason at all to say that MP3s are an inferior encoding.

5/1/2006 11:32:11 AM

I use FLAC and then FLAC Front End to convert to WAVs

5/1/2006 12:49:03 PM