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| quote: | Originally posted by Trypsin
The thing to remember with live sets is that it doesn't matter what bitrate the mp3 is incoded with as much as what the source was. Many livesets are from the radio, which equates to about 112kbit quality. It's like polishing a turd - no matter how good you encode it, it's still going to sound just as crappy as the input. |
Not really...
It's been said before, but mp3 is a lossy format. As soon as you start encoding anything as an mp3 you immediately lose sound quality, no matter what the original was like, making it even worse than the original.
It's like getting a turd, and forming it into new and disturbing shapes. The lower the bitrate you encode it in, the more horrifying the turd becomes. If you encode it with a high bitrate, OK it's still a turd, but it doesn't smell quite as bad as it could have done.
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