Weird MP3 Question..

Factual Questions
1

Okay. This is truly weird, so bear with me.

I have a lot of speeches on tapes. Motivational talks. That sort of thing. Some are over 20 years old, so I got the bright idea to MP3 them all.

After all, a 20 year old tape in a hot car is not a good idea.

So. I Start to MP3 them all. WAV to MP3.

Since they are all speeches, I can digitize at a VERY low rate. I usually pick the lowest or second lowest rate Cool Edit has.

Then, I MP3 them. I play them, and they sound great.

They sound great on my MP3 player (Nike Rio) and MP3 car stereo (Kenwood)

Perfection, right?

So. I get an EGOMAN MP3 CD player.

They sound about 60% too fast.

Now, MP3’s of songs, digitized at “full digitize” sound fine.

But the speeches sound wrong.

Any ideas?

2

Sounds like it only supports 44.1Khz MP3s.

3

Thank you Alereon! I had the same problem with an MP3 CD in my DVD player.

4

To get the best MP3 quality for normal speech and maintain compatibility, use the LAME MP3 encoder in Voice mode, set to 44.1Khz Mono (stereo if needed). I would hope there was a LAME cooledit filter, but if not you can find the LAME command line program on various places about the web.