[HPFGU-OTChatter] My failure on Ebay

[bumbledor]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dina Lerret" <bunniqula at gmail.com>
To: <HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] My failure on Ebay


> On 11/30/06, sbejster <sbejster at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> My question is how the heck did she manage to get a whole book on one
>> CD?!!!  I used to own HP4 on CD and it took 10 CDs to hear the whole 
>> book.
>
> Let's just say, *theoretically*, it'd be based on compression and
> bitrate chosen, after the audio tracks were ripped.  Most bootlegs are
> at a lower quality for easier distributions.  Some folk who buy the
> CDs recompress them to fit on iPods (to save room) and the like, so
> fitting a book or more than one onto a CD is definitely possible while
> maintaining reasonable audio.
>
> Dina
>

They got the whole book, by "ripping it" to MP3 format.  I.E. converted the 
raw aduio traks to Mp3, which is a lot smaller than raw audio. HBP if I 
remember right, is like 20 something CD's. but only 3 with MP3.