http://www.somethingawful.com

http://www.theonion.com

You’d have to be crazy to supply Yahoo with that kind of information. Seriously, that’s an invitation for them to invade your privacy.

If you are unable to draw anything useful or informative from my post, sorry there’s nothing I can do to help you.

In short, if you don’t get it… well, you just don’t get it.

PS: Fans of the Matrix will appreciate this site: http://www.metacortechs.com/

If you’re at home, allow Yahoo access through the firewall.

If you’re at work, don’t use Yahoo without your company’s permission.

😡

Glad you found it helpful.

Another thing is that RazorLame is GREAT for decompression (mp3 to wav). If I make a mix for someone and have to use some mp3s, I don’t let Nero et al. handle the decompression. RazorLame is much better at it in the same way that it’s great for compression. Something about the way it handles the data makes it more sonically “true” to the original. After decompressing with RazorLame, I throw the tunes on to a disc and I’m ready to go.

Here is how I rip/encode my MP3s, this is a cut and paste from something I posted on a newsgroup where someone was experiencing really bad quality from the MP3s they were ripping. I know that’s not your specific problem, but the programs listed are top notch sonically AND I’ve never once had any problems with the ID3 tags they generate, which are pulled directly from cddb:

A lot of MP3 quality has to do with the method by which you extracted
the data as well as the means by which you encode it–provided you are
creating your own MP3s.

For high-quality extraction, I recommend Exact Audio Copy (EAC). It’s
free, and blows many other extractors out of the water as far as
quality goes:

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/eac6.html

After ripping the files off disc, you’ll need to encode them. Right
now, I think the best encoder (and scene standard for the most part)
is LAME 3.96:

http://lame.sourceforge.net/

Here is a tutorial for setting up EAC+Lame:
http://www.ping.be/satcp/eac00.htm

If you decide to do this, once you have EAC and Lame installed do the
following:

EAC -> Compression Options -> External Compression -> Additional
Command Line Options: –alt-preset standard -Z

If only everyone would rip MP3s like that. If you’re downloading off a
P2P program, you’re going to mostly get bad rips or low bitrates. If
you go to the newsgroups, you’ll see that most people rip according to
the above standards or higher (at which there’s no point due to the
fact that MP3s are supposed to be ‘compacted’).

As far as a program for ‘fixing’ ID3 tags, I suggest Tag and Rename (http://www.softpointer.com/tr.htm). Works like a charm.

If you’re not using a hacked copy of Trillian, why don’t you ask this question on their forums?