What bitrate do you rip at?

[mrapoc]

Which do you find to be the best bitrate to rip in (without crazy amounts of space used up *cough* X Fi Superip 80mb per track *cough*)

Also would you go MP3 or WMA?

Also needs to be a sensible file size for my mp3 player

 

[NickS]

Usually MP3: 320KB/s. CBR. (Constant Bit Rate)

 

[Rastalovich]

Usually MP3: 320KB/s. CBR. (Constant Bit Rate)

Meh, can`t argue with that.

 

[Dav0s]

192 kb/s usually

and always MP3

 

[equk]

On iTunes I think mine is 192 or 160 on MP3

 

[mrapoc]

Isn't there a certain bitrate you cant really hear the difference above?

 

[Dav0s]

its different for everone, i cant tell the difference above 192

 

[ionicle]

CD's are 128 ...

i usually rip at 320 MP3 ...but somtimes 192 WMA ..i like WMA it does sound better, but...mp3 works with winamp, and my ipod...so..

 

[Dav0s]

CD's are in .WAV, not the same thing

 

[NickS]

CD's are in .WAV, not the same thing

Yup. .WAV is the highest quality you can get.

 

[ionicle]

and yet wav sounds the worst :S

also, when i look at a cd in my computer, it shows all the files as

whatever.cda

and ...WMA sounds better, and is smaller, but...wont work on ipod, or winamp ....shame really

 

[Dav0s]

WAV is pretty much the best format since it is uncompressed

CDA is a sort of method to prevent copyright theft, as it cannot be played by a computer, its more of a shortcut to the file than a music file itself.

its not usually case of something sounding betetr than the other, as when wma and mp3 are both at the highest quality, you couldnt tell the difference.

 

[NickS]

and yet wav sounds the worst :S

also, when i look at a cd in my computer, it shows all the files as

whatever.cda

and ...WMA sounds better, and is smaller, but...wont work on ipod, or winamp ....shame really

Uh, WAV sound's the best buddy.

 

[equk]

and yet wav sounds the worst :S

CD's are 128 ...

Though a WAV file can hold compressed audio, the most common WAV format contains uncompressed audio in the pulse-code modulation (PCM) format. PCM audio is the standard audio file format for CDs at 44,100 samples per second, 16 bits per sample. Since PCM uses an uncompressed, lossless storage method, which keeps all the samples of an audio track, professional users or audio experts may use the WAV format for maximum audio quality. WAV audio can also be edited and manipulated with relative ease using software.

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Audio CDs do not use WAV as their sound format, instead using Red Book audio. The commonality is that both audio CDs and WAV files have the audio data encoded in PCM. WAV is a data file format for computer use that can't be understood by CD players directly. To record WAV files to an Audio CD the file headers must be stripped and the remaining PCM data written directly to the disc as individual tracks with zero padding added to match the CD's sector size.

Red Book audio:

specifies the form of digital audio encoding (2-channel signed 16-bit PCM sampled at 44100 Hz).

Bit rate = 44100 samples/s × 16 bit/sample × 2 channels = 1411.2 kbit/s (more than 10 MB per minute)

 

[mrapoc]

So for overall quality/size the best format would be mp3 @ 192kbps

 

[glocktodahead]

192 kb/s usually

and always MP3

I also use this

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

I rip from CD to .ape (monkey's audio) on hard disk 'cos i'm not short of space. It's lossless (high quality) but still gives pretty good compression. I rip/transfer the .ape on the fly from disk to iPod using an m4a/aac codec.



TOG

 

[FleX.overclock3d]

So for overall quality/size the best format would be mp3 @ 192kbps

ahh kool, cos I use this too hehe.

 

[Toxcity]

The best format really is Vinyl!

Then CD then MP3!

Im a MP3 person, love it to bits!

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Then CD then MP3!

mp3 is by far the most popular lossy compression and probably easiest/greatest compatibility format to work with but it's nowhere near the best. There's also quite a few lossless compression formats that are way, way better than mp3, in terms of pure audio quality.



TOG