Ripping quality music.

[96civ 10+ year member]

Since I usually listen to music through my iPod I understand it is best to put high quality, high-value bitrate songs on there in order to get good sounding music, but I have a question. Say I have a 128 Kbps .mp3 file and put it on a CD. Then I rip it using Windows Media Player. I have my ripping settings setup so that it rips the CD files to 320 Kbps .mp3 files. Will the 320 Kbps .mp3 file that was originally 128 Kbps have the quality of an actual 320 Kbps .mp3 file?

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[Corey69 10+ year member]

1411.2 kbps

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

yepp;.. i think...

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

Since I usually listen to music through my iPod I understand it is best to put high quality, high-value bitrate songs on there in order to get good sounding music, but I have a question. Say I have a 128 Kbps .mp3 file and put it on a CD. Then I rip it using Windows Media Player. I have my ripping settings setup so that it rips the CD files to 320 Kbps .mp3 files. Will the 320 Kbps .mp3 file that was originally 128 Kbps have the quality of an actual 320 Kbps .mp3 file?

No. You cannot rip improve the quality of a song you rip. There's nothing there for it to "improve".

 

[AJ²06 5,000+ posts]

No. You cannot rip improve the quality of a song you rip. There's nothing there for it to "improve".

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Fo' sho'

TEHNICALLY, it will be of a higher bit rate, but the quality wont be up par with the bitrate...

ya know.

 

[96civ 10+ year member]

No. You cannot rip improve the quality of a song you rip. There's nothing there for it to "improve".

That's what I figured, but for some reason the file size of the "upgraded" file was larger than the original 128 .mp3. Maybe the ripped file was given a lot of blank information that increased the file size but was impertinent to the sound quality?

 

[helotaxi 5,000+ posts]

Its still ripping at the higher bitrate and making a file of a size comensurate with that bitrate, but the half the data is the same data as the sample before it.

 

[GrnEydDvl 10+ year member]

Mp3 is a lossy encoding format, meaning when you encode something to mp3 some of the information is lost - permanently. If you re-encode a lower bit rate mp3 to a higher resolution format (like you asked about) you will not recoup that lost information.

You will, in effect, just have a higher resolution sampling of the same lowered resolution material. This would be pointless as nothing will have changed from the lower bit rate mp3 except for the file size.