Difference Between Bitrates!

[Kenny Lee]

Yes most of us rip our cd's to our pc bit to what bitrates ?

I rip al of my cd's to 192 kb/s. (mp3)
Allot of people rip @ 320 kb/s.. is that neccesary ? Can you really hear the difference ?

Some people i know even rip their cd's to wav!

Is their any difference that we can detect by ear between 320 kb/s mp3 and wav ?

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Howdy Mendel. CD's are either aiff or wav files. We always rip mp3's to 320. 128 is poop 64 is mono
Try saving your next session as a 24bit and burn it on a DVD.... then listen to that thru your home theater system!!!!

 

[gorath23]

I don't allow mp3 below 320 on my harddrive....and no lame encoded files either

Lasse, why no LAME, surely this is the best way of encoding to mp3?

EDIT: n/m haha, you already answered.

 

[Mendel]

I love the way you put the exclamation mark after Wav, like its shocking they may do that lol.

I know what you mean

But if you have 1000 cd's, wav format is quite huge.

wav album's are aprox. 600 mb.

1000 cd's x 600mb (wav) = 600.000 mb.

600.000 mb : 1000 = 600 gb.

So it's allot f spce.

 

[LydonB]

I know what you mean

But if you have 1000 cd's, wav format is quite huge.

wav album's are aprox. 600 mb.

1000 cd's x 600mb (wav) = 600.000 mb.

600.000 mb : 1000 = 600 gb.

So it's allot f spce.

Well at least the bright side of that is that hard drives are getting bigger and more affordable all the time so the reality of burning 1000 CD's of a personal collection to .wav is not that far fetched.

 

[Mendel]

True, but you forget that we man have porn......

 

[jhrv]

True, but you forget that we man have porn......

True.

 

[broken81]

I know what you mean

But if you have 1000 Cd's, wav format is quite huge.

wav album's are aprox. 600 mb.

1000 cd's x 600mb (wav) = 600.000 mb.

600.000 mb : 1000 = 600 gb.

So it's allot f spce.

1000 Cd's at 10.00 each = 10,000 dollars in the US anyway.

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

1000 Cd's at 10.00 each = 10,000 dollars in the US anyway.

Painfully true. Up here it would be around 17.000 euros if the albums were bought new, which sums up to 25.000 usd with the current rate. If you're gonna spend 25 thousand bucks on albums, I think you can throw out a couple of hundrer for a 1TB external HD

 

[TomAwesome]

I rip mostly to 192kbps MP3, but as time passes and hard drives get bigger, I find myself gradually bumping the bitrate up, so really anywhere between 192 and 320 depending on my mood. Some special albums get FLAC.

 

[SickBoy]

As I mostly listen mp3s in my car, the bitrate is alright with me as long as it's 192 or over.
In all the noise during the drive I don't pay attention to compression artifacts, I pay attention to music.

 

[wishtheend]

Honestly, if you have the space - I would just keep all your music in FLAC, and then just convert them down to mp3/m4a and just upload that to your ipod. Once their on the pod, just delete them off the HD. Gives you a fine copy for portable listening, but you'll still have the FLAC if you need to reference the cd quality, or reburn an album to disc.

 

[Glenn Fricker]

I encode to VBR with WinLame http://winlame.sourceforge.net/ at "highest quality" & it seems to be a good balance of quality/space. Never had a problem with the cymbals encoding this way.... You sure you picked the right algorithm, Lasse?

-0z-

 

[lordcthulhu]

Compression loss on 128kbps Mp3 is very annoying, without any doubt. Since I'm fast running out of space on my laptop (and I can't be arsed getting a portable HD), I've used 160kbps m4A to re-encode my 320kbps MP3s. "Blasphemy!" you say (coincidentally I'm listening to Morbid Angel's Blasphemy as I type), but I can't say I really can tell too much of a difference, besides now I can at least fit 2500+ songs on my 20GB iPod.