David, I didn't find your posts offensive. They may have been misplaced in the wrong mailing list, but I read them. Maybe a little forward as to why you were sending the messages (like your message here) would have been appropriate to start off your msgs. If you did, I missed it. I can see why others may have been offended --- w/o an introduction, it looks like an attack. But, even at that, it was just your opinion. And, that's healthy. I just think you needed a little forward to your analysis and everything would (probably) have been fine. that's my 2cents brad -- Brad Fuller (408) 799-6124 ** Sonaural Audio Studios ** (408) 799-6123 West San Jose (408) 799-6124 Cambrian ________________________________ Hear us online: www.Sonaural.com ----- Original Message ----- *From:* davidrclark(a)earthlink.net *Sent:* Friday, August 26, 2005 3:35:28 PM Greetings all, I was just contacted by Erik de Castro Lopo who requested that I go edit a bunch of my files. It appears that Erik is planning to do some sort of comparison between what I've done and what he has done. This would be an inappropriate response to my claim regarding the misuse of Smith's method for bulk conversions at constant rates, so I'll take care of it right away: 1) If you INSIST on using something in Linux audio for resampling and you don't really understand the issues involved, then you should definitely use Erik's program(s) rather than anything I wrote because you're a lot less likely to have very serious errors; however, 2) You really shouldn't use EITHER of these for anything as valuable as, for example, an audio library. Once again, you'd probably be better off acquiring a new library or re-recording the sources. If you cannot do that, then you should probably get with a professional engineer who does this all the time, then *thoroughly* test the results. Anything wrong may suddenly pop up later on, and you may not consider that it could be the resampling step that caused it. You probably won't see anything more from me on resampling, because I'm not really interested in it. My recent posts were merely a very belated reply to abusive demands made long ago on this forum, and *only* because I started feeling sorry for those who may be misled into damaging their audio files, not because I felt obligated to the jackasses who heaped abuse on me. Regards to all, Dave. P.S. LAU is on my spam list, so I haven't seen anything posted recently. I will post announcements once in a while, but I'm really tired (just like Noah) of abuse, personal attacks, and misrepresentation by the Illuminati (not limited to Lee R) of what I regard as very much like a cult. Think about the many parallels to one of those "spaceship" cults, and you'll see why I say that. Certainly not all who read/post here buy into this cult mentality, but a significant percentage have.