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<blockquote data-quote="Raven" data-source="post: 1251296" data-attributes="member: 558368">The Life of a shoddy MP3:Person A rips the song off a CD at 320KBPS, but since (s)he doesn&#039;t think at all to tweak the MP3 ripper&#039;s LAME settings, it comes out more like 256k.Person B downloads it off A.Person B reencodes the song to 256kbps to save file size, in the conversion, the shoddy &quot;free&quot; spyware filled MP3 converter app loses about 25% audio quality, so now it&#039;s a 256k MP3 that sounds like a 168K.Person C downloads it off B, and thanks to some heavy *** resource usage by AOL, there&#039;s now irreversable skipping and it sounds like a 128K mp3.Person C thinks, &quot;Hey, if I make it 320, it will sound better!&quot; So they reencode the file to a higher bitrate. Again, quality is lost in the conversion, so it sounds like a shoddy 96kbps MP3.Then you downloaded it. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gifThen we have a good MP3:Person A uses a fresh install of the latest version of the LAME codec to rip a song directly off a CD at 128KBPS after tweaking the MP3 quality settings. And it was on Linux, because I can vouch that Linux PwNx0rZ for ripping CDs.Person A offers it online, you download with minimal quality loss, and have a good MP3. =)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven, post: 1251296, member: 558368"] The Life of a shoddy MP3: Person A rips the song off a CD at 320KBPS, but since (s)he doesn't think at all to tweak the MP3 ripper's LAME settings, it comes out more like 256k. Person B downloads it off A. Person B reencodes the song to 256kbps to save file size, in the conversion, the shoddy "free" spyware filled MP3 converter app loses about 25% audio quality, so now it's a 256k MP3 that sounds like a 168K. Person C downloads it off B, and thanks to some heavy *** resource usage by AOL, there's now irreversable skipping and it sounds like a 128K mp3. Person C thinks, "Hey, if I make it 320, it will sound better!" So they reencode the file to a higher bitrate. Again, quality is lost in the conversion, so it sounds like a shoddy 96kbps MP3. Then you downloaded it. [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif[/IMG] Then we have a good MP3: Person A uses a fresh install of the latest version of the LAME codec to rip a song directly off a CD at 128KBPS after tweaking the MP3 quality settings. And it was on Linux, because I can vouch that Linux PwNx0rZ for ripping CDs. Person A offers it online, you download with minimal quality loss, and have a good MP3. =) [/QUOTE]

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