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What Kbps is best?
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jstutman said:
That depends on how the file is encoded, but 128 is almost never CD quality -- it is actually very far from it. A file ripped using WMP's "lossless" (theoretically no data is lost in the rip) mode should play at around 1000kbps, so that would be CD quality if the file was ripped with WMP. And it is very easy to tell the difference between a file ripped at 128kbps and that same file ripped at 320kbps.
If anything, I would be ripping my songs to higher than 256, not ripping them to 128. 128 is very low and really does not sound good.
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Rip to 192. I can tell a difference between 64/128/192. Anything higher, not really.
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Most people can not tell the difference beyond 128kbps. Yes, 128kbps is not '100% true cd quality', but it's good enough. I ripped all my music at 128kbps to help save space, and it sounds great. Try it at home: Take a song and rip it at 128/160/192/256 and see if you can tell the difference.
jstutman said:
Yeah I wasn't trying to be mean or anything
. I may be wrong, too.Bios24 said:
It also depends on the speakers you have and the volume at which you listen to music. The better the speakers you have, the easier it will be to tell the difference between bitrates.
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What codec is it? I highly reccomend -q6 vorbis, or better yet FLAC, but for mp3 I would reccomend keeping a pretty high bitrate.
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I use MP3 because I don't know a thing about the other Codec's. I know I can burn CD's and play them in my car. Now, I know that could be taken 2 different ways. No I can't burn in MP3 format, and my car stereo open the file and play it. So, that brings up another question. MaximumPC did a test on Codec's, and WMA and what ever the heck Monkey is, (I think that's what it was), were the best. Will they play in my car stereo?
*EDIT* Changed WMV to WMA
*EDIT* Changed WMV to WMA
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Monkey's audio is a lossless codec, much like FLAC. Those codec's most likely will not play on your car stereo. You should definately check out ogg vorbis . It is similar to mp3 but it sounds better at lower bitrates and is completely royalty free, it is an open source project.
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I prefer 192k myself.
recommend
i recommend dBpoweramp for realitively easy ripping of your CD's ... been using it fora long time now and ive never had any problems.. personally i rip at 192k "professional ripping" vbr (keeps the filesize to a minimum while highest quality), and joint stereo ...
i recommend dBpoweramp for realitively easy ripping of your CD's ... been using it fora long time now and ive never had any problems.. personally i rip at 192k "professional ripping" vbr (keeps the filesize to a minimum while highest quality), and joint stereo
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256 max i usually get 192 tho
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Nice guide for audio ripping and encoding... offers a lot of information to undertand things from lossless encoding, to the differences in MP3 bitrates.
http://mp3.radified.com/
http://mp3.radified.com/
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I copy all of my music in wma lossless format
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Lossless is good, once you try it, you will never go back. As long as you have hdd space left for all of it!
