mp3 quality?

[Adam7]

whats the best quality for mp3's, it seems that the 128's sound beter than 192's

 

[de8212]

128's sound better????? Must be a bad rip of the 192 if that's the case. I rip all mine @ 192 with cdex. Alot of people like 256 or even 320. Just rip a cd of your own and compare for yourself. If 128 sounds better then I have no idea.

 

[Sid59]

--alt-preset standard -Z

 

[igowerf]

People need to stop ripping at 128. How are you comparing the two mp3s? Did you download them or rip them yourself?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: igowerf
People need to stop ripping at 128.

Amen

 

[Broadkipa]

192 is the min I would say

 

[TheWart]

the only way 128 might sound better is if you have bad speakers imo. i rip VBR alt-preset-extreme which gives me quite a nice sound from my Klipsch without sacrificing huge amounts of space. There is also a very good AT FAQ about this, where is Andy Hui?

 

[clicknext]

General rule is the higher the better. After somewhere around 160-256, you can't really hear a difference anymore. I personally think variable bit rate is the best quality.

 

[TheCorm]

It could be that the file has been re-encoded at some point...for instance people think that a file encoded at 96kbps that they convert to 192kbps will sound better....when in fact it will often sound a little worse because of the re-encoding and will now take up twice as much space.

I find 128kbps are a minimum, they sound OK but not great. For my home encodings I use VBR set to average of 160kbps and it sound pretty good.

Jamie

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: TheCorm
It could be that the file has been re-encoded at some point...for instance people think that a file encoded at 96kbps that they convert to 192kbps will sound better....when in fact it will often sound a little worse because of the re-encoding and will now take up twice as much space.


Jamie

lol yea if u get something off kazaa or something u never know what ur getting. some turd muffin might download a 128kbs mp3, or even lower then that. burn it to a cd. lend it to someone or simply reencode it themselves at 192kbs. repeat process over and over burn after burn it degrades and degrades.. oh the horror..the horror.

but when u pirate u can't complain


and yea theres the peeps who think they can magically inject quality by reencoding at higher bitrate.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I have a question, that hopefully someone might know the answer to. I'm running a dual processor (4 logical--HT enabled) system, and both winamp and WMP skip from time to time. This was never the case when I had just one Xeon. And that is the only thing that I've changed. And it's not in the recording. I was just wondering if anyone knew of any mp3 player that supports multi-threading / dual proc. Thanks...
--IC2

 

[0roo0roo]

is there a setting for increasing the buffer? kinda odd to skip when mp3s probably take maybe 1% of your cpu time.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I agree. And I haven't gotten to play with the settings in WMP or Winamp yet. But all the hardware is good...
--IC2

 

[igowerf]

Perhaps it's your sound card. Which sound card do you use?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Creative Labs Audigy 2 PCI. And I have the PCI-X bus set to 33MHz where the Audigy card is at. And I've got all the drivers updated, etc.
--IC2

 

[Pauli]

Originally posted by: Adam7
whats the best quality for mp3's, it seems that the 128's sound beter than 192's

You OBVIOUSLY know absolutely ZERO about what an MP3 is. This statement is utterly ridiculous.

And to answer your question, 320kbps CBR is the best quality setting for MP3s. Of course, you might as well just save them as raw audio files if you need the best quality, or a lossless compression format like FLAC.