Poll: At what bitrate do you encode music?

[LikeLinus]

I have everything lossless FLAC/ALAC and a copy in AAC 256k or 320kbps MP3 for my car/phone.

 

[sdifox]

Long drives?

No, just something to torture the kids with xd.

 

[IronWing]

Why not just stream? Spotify is 320k anyway so...

I prefer that musicians get paid for their work.

 

[WelshBloke]

I prefer that musicians get paid for their work.

I have CDs from decades ago. The artists are making nothing from those everytime I listen.

 

[Thump553]

For home listening or archival purposes, FLAC-been doing that for at least twenty years.

I spend a lot of time in the car. Unless I can pick up a decent college station/show or am in a NPR mood, I play music off my phone on a random basis our of an approximately 2500 tune collection. Given how noisy cars are, I generally don't even mess with quieter tracks, so audio quality is a lesser priority than available storage space (damn modern phones) so the car tracks are 128 bit MP3s (now AAC since now using an iphone).

Let me divert this thread a bit. Is there anyone besides me that thinks iTunes is perhaps the most unintuitive major piece of software ever? I miss my android phone where I could easily drag and drop music on or off my phone. I recently spent the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out how to take an album off my phone and/or add just one new album from my home computer's library of mp3s/AAC. Never did get it done. Something that would take a couple of seconds on my old android phone (or the antiquated Windows phone before it).

 

[sdifox]

For home listening or archival purposes, FLAC-been doing that for at least twenty years.

I spend a lot of time in the car. Unless I can pick up a decent college station/show or am in a NPR mood, I play music off my phone on a random basis our of an approximately 2500 tune collection. Given how noisy cars are, I generally don't even mess with quieter tracks, so audio quality is a lesser priority than available storage space (damn modern phones) so the car tracks are 128 bit MP3s (now AAC since now using an iphone).

Let me divert this thread a bit. Is there anyone besides me that thinks iTunes is perhaps the most unintuitive major piece of software ever? I mess my android phone where I could easily drag and drop music on or off my phone. I recently spent the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out how to take an album off my phone and/or add just one new album from my home computer's library of mp3s/AAC. Never did get it done. Something that would take a couple of seconds on my old android phone (or the antiquated Windows phone before it).

They were on bad drugs when they designed that.

 

[bigboxes]

If I'm ripping the source myself, it's 320kbps CBR. Stream over Plex when not local.

 

[MrSquished]

320

 

[Fallen Kell]

Mine are encoded to flac and 320 (my car does not support flac on its built in player).

 

[CP5670]

I use ogg at 256-320kbps. I mostly listen to electronic music from games, and FLAC is nice but often not worth it when the music and instrument samples are not top quality to begin with.

 

[Oyeve]

Back when I started creating MP3s from my disks I used 128k because in the early 90s HDs were expensive and space was a premium. Now, I redid most of my collection at 320k minimum but for the most part I just create a wav file and leave it at that. Space is so cheap any my main PC is at 20TB of SSD and I have so many NAS boxes with even more TBs.