I just recently got my hands on some CDs that have greatly enhanced my dream recal and vividness in dreams. I have listening to these CDs now for two weeks. I have been reading the forums on and off for several years now and recently bacame a member to post some questions that I have run into.
I am interested in sharing some homebrew tracks and other binaural beats with this forum since I feel I recieved the most information from here than any where else and would like to share with the members here, but I don’t know what bitrates to compress these tracks into mp3. Some people only download tracks that are compressed at a certian quality and some people say some advanced techniques to carry through the mp3 compression below certain qualities due to what mp3s are designed for.
I am very thankful for the information I have gained from reading at this forum about sbgen, bwgen, Brain Sound Studio, Neural Noise Synthesizer, and Cool Edit. In exchange also from the numerous tips from where to download binaural beats, I would like to add my resources that I have gained over the years that I use personally. I recently got the opportunity to do this since the company I have been hosting under recently gave me unlimited banwidth for being a long time customer with them. So before I send something to be downloaded, I wanted to hear from the members here what is a recommended bitrate.
Well, I don’t hear a difference between 320 kbps and like, 2048 kbps. So I guess 320 kbps would do too. (I do hear a noise with high and low tones comparing 320 to 192 kbps). Of course the easy way out would be a variable bitrate
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Yes It would be nice if you could compress to mp3 if you dont happen to have access to a server where you could store big wav files.
Do not use variable bitrate when encoding to mp3 if there is binaural beats on the cds, It will make them useless.
Aiboforcen, thank you for the link, I have not heard of that program, I also have cool edit that I thought of using to turn into mp3. I think I will put up two different bitrates, 192 and 320. Is there really a demand for wav format for hour long tracks like Fadem suggested?
Mp3 compression has its uses, for binaural beats it is completely useless. if you look at how mp3’s compress, they use fourier transforms and also deduction of ‘multiples of frequencies’ by placing half or double the sound in other harmonics or removing harmonics that are similar. Those harmonics are what make binarual beats actually work - i’d suggest that mp3 encoding actually probably defeats the entire purpose of accessing those frequencies, and would highly recommend against it.
Yes noodle, I’ve heard that too. The best way to do it would be to encode them lossless. However, if you use brainwave entrainment technologies that don’t rely on binaural beats (such as Transparent’s software, www.transparentcorp.com) you will be able to encode to mp3. Transparent claims that their software outputs WAVS that can be compressed up to 64kbps mp3 and still work. However, they recommend 128kbps. They use several entrainment technologies that include binaural beats. However since they combine many techniques the entrainment is much more powerful. You must know enough about BWE to make your own preset (or download a preset from their library(
I was wondering about what n00dle said, but I know from experience that 192 and even 128 did effect me with pure binarual beats and nothing else. With the advanced stuff from transparent, I did notice some loss in its effectiveness at 128, as if its potence became less, but not totally ineffective.
n00dle, did you expereince loss or non-effectiveness when messing around with bitrates and binarual beats when encoding to mp3?
What does lossless mean? Do you mean as a wav? As waves they are around 600 to 800 MB, as mp3 they stay around 20 to 60 MB per file.
After reading at other forums, should people just PM me for the address or email me, or is it alright to put anything up at this place?
Is are was there a topic for people learning sbagen, bwgen, and the like here? In case any of you are interested, I can help anybody who wants to learn binarual beat programs or who needs help with them.
The most important thing is to encode the file with two separate channel (marked as ‘Stereo’ or ‘2 Channel’ in the ID3 tag). ‘Joint stereo’ is totally useless for transmitting binaural stimulation and the Net is already flooded up with this crap.
Thanks for the link for FLAC. I have been researching the realm of lossless compressed audio. There is FLAC and others, which lossless compression do all of you commonly use, and which would all of you prefer to be used for music to download?
Apple Lossless - A relatively new proprietary codec by Apple.
Bonk - An open-source source codec. No player or library support yet.
La - A closed source symmetric adaptive codec, with Windows and Linux console binaries. Current king of compression ratios but extremely slow.
LPAC - A closed source codec. At least it’s available for more than just Windows, but there’s only a Winamp plugin.
Monkey’s Audio - A symmetric adaptive codec with good compression. Source is available under a non-OSI license. There are two versions available now, one by the original author Matt Ashland and one by Frank Klemm. The one tested here is from the original author.
Ogg Squish - An open source source codec that is no longer maintained. The version I tested, 0.98, was the latest I could find. I don’t have Windows timing results but it is among the ‘fast’ coders, based on UNIX tests.
optimFROG - A closed source, Windows/Linux codec, with Winamp and XMMS plugins. Slow but high compression ratios.
RKAU - A closed source, Windows-only codec. No update in over two years.
Shorten - A.J. Robinson’s well-known codec; source is available here.
WavPack - An open-source, (currently) Windows-based codec, released under the BSD license. WavPack has a very good tradeoff between compressed size and compression speed.
I’m so sad…! None of the CD stores around here have no binural beats or anything like that, I might just have to get something off the internet any suggestions to CD’s I can purchase on ebay or amzon something like that, or music files I can get of the internet?
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