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Posted by Arbiter on Jul-11-2002 05:22:

320.. hell, just give me a .wav file

Posted by Exhale on Jul-14-2002 14:58:

Almost all stuff is in 192, but 256 is the rate I prefer. But .wav is even better .

Posted by Spyder on Jul-22-2002 00:16:

192 plzzz... is somthing like .. but then again.. waht do i know..

ammm it's not too bad.. and not tooo good JUST right.. hehe

Posted by pnuemo on Jul-22-2002 06:31:

192 all the way baby! best quality/size ratio!

Posted by fieroavian on Jul-22-2002 13:05:

LAME VBR VBR VBR baby!!!!!!

192k VBR would be best for me, so 192k CBR comes close. btw, i'm so sick of people who encode MP3s in Xing encoder (which comes with AudioCatalyst), it's hands down the worst quality encoder out there, yet so popular.

Posted by tsetso on Jul-25-2002 14:13:

that question is rhetorical, right? of course 192 kbps, what else...

Posted by Parafox on Jul-29-2002 00:00:

160 is almost enough - I don't hear big differences in the quality between a 192k and a 160k mp3...even 128 isn't bad!

Posted by cbxzcm on Jul-29-2002 05:59:

I like using "lame --r3mix"

Posted by Nadi on Jul-29-2002 07:06:

192 is the best for me as well. I dont have a great soundcard on my labtop, and when its not there im listening on headphones, so anything else wont sound any better. 160 is fine, but not as good and 128 or less is just shit

Posted by Andrew K on Jul-29-2002 14:04:

160

Posted by Fresh on Jul-29-2002 15:02:

192 or above

Posted by TimeportE on Jul-29-2002 15:37:

quote:
Originally posted by DVS
192 or above

wurd!!

i used to listen to 128 only because i was on 56 back then, now i'm on adsl and i download only 192 and after a while you really can hear the difference!! my friends don't believe me when i say that 128 is crappy!!
i even got the prophet in 320!! i like to play that tune loud!!

Posted by PeacefulWarrior on Aug-17-2002 01:25:

If given a choice I will always download the higher bitrate; although 256k is close to ideal.

Posted by afastest on Aug-19-2002 16:42:

i am very happy, i found two replies with wavs .
me voted for 320 kbits, everything that i compress myself is 320 kbit with lame. Mp3s that i download are mostly 192, since is it most common bitrate nowadays. If i can find higher bitrate, i always choose it.
About mp3 quality:
there is big difference bitween codecs, and the sound that you compress. Some codecs are that bad, that i can clearly hear bubling effect in music, and strange noise in silent places.
I have one track from trance master 21 as i recall.
Metal master - Odyssey of light Solid sleep mix.
If you have wav, please try compress it to 128, 192 and 320.
The first minute of the composition has something, what will make you hear the difference bitween wav and mp3, at least 192 an less.
The echo after vocals, and beep, reverbiration aswell will have strange bubling effect, like boiling water or something.
The best way to hear that bubling is to compress silent music with 24 kbits.
But there is another way. Get Nullsoft dsp plugin for winamp. Choose voice remove effect. You will hear that in almost all mp3. Only 320 kbit with lame codec will have the less of it. But i still can hear that. In 128 it will awfull, just try it.
That's why wav is the best it is cristally clear. it is fully digital. Mp3 is not fully digital. It does not have the wave in it. It only has frequences, with small discrepancy. They just try to make that discrepancy as small as possible, so human brains can't hear or recognize it.

The other thing i dont get is why ppl always want more, but not more quality. Few years back, when ppl had 2-4 gb hdds, they were happy to have 200 mp3. Now hdd are at least 10 times bigger, but many still want 128 kbit mp3s, thousands of shit mp3s are better that 200 wavs.

Posted by netw3rkd on Aug-20-2002 18:28:

192!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by _Marco_ on Aug-21-2002 21:32:

192 for sure

Posted by webbie on Oct-05-2002 13:27:

192, i like 320 when its avaible and its a really good tune tho.

Posted by sharpeye00 on Oct-06-2002 05:09:

i honestly don't hear a difference between 128 and 192 but just to be safe if for others i am throwin a party for and they want perfection i go with 160 when i get tracks. This is how i figure it. 128 might sound crappy to people with perfect ears. 160 is just fine for them, and 192 is fine for them but just takes up more space. so i usually go with 160, never 128.

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Oct-06-2002 05:33:

192kbps for me

Posted by Technaut on Oct-06-2002 11:39:

meh, i dnt care what the bit rate is as long as it sounds good

Posted by Linx_da_cat on Oct-06-2002 14:45:

192 because it sounds great and isn't HUGE.

anything higher is just a waste imo.

Posted by afastest on Oct-07-2002 21:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Technaut
meh, i dnt care what the bit rate is as long as it sounds good

what is huge?
on modern multi gigabytes hard drives 20 mb for an mp3 is still too much? on usual hdd you can have thousands of mp3s. several years ago you could have only hundreds. and cd-rs are cheaper than ever now, two disks for one euro/dollar.
i dont understand, but people always wanna it smaller and smaller.
quality doesnt mean anything. they want more. quantity.

Posted by Stanza on Oct-08-2002 00:21:

192 ! Even though I'm on 56K
128 is the absolute minimum for me.

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on Oct-08-2002 00:30:

quote:
Originally posted by afastest
what is huge?

anything between 8-14mb.. which i guess most singles fall into that category these days isnt an unreasonable size to download for a single. Anything bigger starts to become a pain in the ass. Thats why i like 192 so much.

Posted by afastest on Oct-08-2002 08:55:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Mikey Mike

anything between 8-14mb.. which i guess most singles fall into that category these days isnt an unreasonable size to download for a single. Anything bigger starts to become a pain in the ass. Thats why i like 192 so much.

ok, i understand users on 56k. but why 10 MB is huge for dsl?

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