mp3's

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

what is the differance between 128kb/s and 192kb/s? is there an audible differance?

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[cdr 10+ year member]

to me there is a difference yes, 128 is bout the lowest tolerable quality IMO, 192 is about the standard for decent quality, but then again I encode at VBR 0 : )

I suggest you download EAC and give different encoding options a try, some people notice a difference between 192 and 128, others dont so its a personal thing, but I think that just for the normal standard you should never go below 160

 

[DJ Riggz 10+ year member]

If you have a decent sound system then yes you will notice a difference, if you still have good hearing left. 192 is usually considered 'Near CD Quality' with 320 being pretty much CD Quality. 128 Is usually too compressed for a good system.

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

i got a couple of songs that are in the 400-500 range and there is a big diff between them.

 

[DJ Riggz 10+ year member]

That would be VBR (Variable Bit Rate), which is supposed to be 'the best'. It somewhat annoys me to have the bit rate jumping around but, oh well. It's also what the underground mp3 releasing scene uses now as a standard.

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

does anyone know of a program that will record mp3's to a standard audio cd? i've got nero now and it puts a 2 sec pause inbetween each song. . . and that gets kinda annoying when the songs are supposed to be run together. ie. fades from one song to the other.

 

[Gauntlet 5,000+ posts]

128kbps is awful, 192 is tolerable. CD's by far the best...if you can't tell the difference between 192 and a CD, either you're deaf or your stereo sucks.

does anyone know of a program that will record mp3's to a standard audio cd? i've got nero now and it puts a 2 sec pause inbetween each song. . . and that gets kinda annoying when the songs are supposed to be run together. ie. fades from one song to the other.

You can get rid of that...after you get all the tracks in order, highlight them all, right-click, then click properties. You can remove the pause and you can cross-fade between tracks if you want.

 

[torn eMericas 10+ year member]

I cant notice a difference.

Some of my songs are up around 312kps where lots are 128...

 

[jellyfish420 10+ year member]

You can get rid of that...after you get all the tracks in order, highlight them all, right-click, then click properties. You can remove the pause and you can cross-fade between tracks if you want.

ok i tried that and it says my recorder doesn't support that. but i know i've recorded cd's before with no pause. i just don't remember how i did it. is there a way to put them all together as one track and just record it all at once or something?

 

[Black_Jesus 10+ year member]

to me yes... anything lower than 192 is seriously painful to my ears

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

i download 90% at 320k, and always encode at 320...