[Shotimes] Premium sound (getting OT)

[Carl Prochilo]

Back in the day when MP3 encoding started to become popular (circa 1998),
128 bit was the setting most commonly used.  Applications like MusicMatch
used to give you that capability for free and charge you to use the higher
bit settings.  At this point, we use 256bit (now free) for all encoding. 
You don't really need more than that.  Any of the music I have encoded in
128 bit needs to be redone in 256 bit.

A song encoded in 256 bit MP3 format is about 25% the size of the original
CD file.  In my experience, this just fine for a car application.  And
anytime I've used this on the home stereo it has worked fine.
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Fri, October 1, 2004 3:46 pm, Shylo McKinsey said:
> They say 128k (bit rate) is CD quality sound. I've
> never ripped (or...cough cough...borrowed) anything at
> less then 160k. You'd be amazed at the difference of
> the quality of the music between 128k and 160k...much
> less 192k.
>
> Shylo McKinsey
>
> '91 White THX
>
> --- Mike.Wojton@us.o-i.com wrote:
>
>> Just to add a little more fuel to this (like it
>> needs it), a friend
>> of mine wanted to convert all of his cds to mp3s,
>> but upon doing
>> some research, he found that in order to keep the
>> same quality
>> of the recording, he would have had to convert at a
>> much larger
>> bit rate, or whatever, and the number of songs he
>> could store on
>> the device fell drastically.  Don't know if it's
>> true or not, but it
>> seems to me people are getting sucked in by the
>> promise of being
>> able to store your entire cd library on the head of
>> a pin ( my
>> analogy, sorry), that they don't realize they are
>> going to have to
>> forego the quality just to do it.
>>
>>
>> Mike Wojton
>> Toledo, Ohio
>>
>> -'95 White MTX
>>    '96 Brake Upgrade
>>
>> "Avoid the clap." - Jimmy Dugan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> shotimes-admin@autox.team.net wrote on 10/01/2004
>> 12:09:13 PM:
>>
>> > And you then have a (IMHO) poor-looking external
>> hookup in the dash
>> area,
>> > much like the setup for aftermarket satellite
>> radios.
>> >
>> > Maybe when MP3 is integrated into the factory
>> unit, along with satellite
>> > radio, I'll then consider them. For now, the CD
>> changer in the trunk and
>> the
>> > cassette player hidden behind the faceplate suit
>> me just fine. Although
>> the
>> > new car has the 6-CD changer in the dash, I will
>> miss the lack of a
>> cassette
>> > player!!
>> >
>> > MP3 players remind me of the old Springsteen line
>> about cable TV (500
>> > channels and nothing to watch), except "10,000
>> songs and nothing to
>> listen
>> > to"!!
>
>
>
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