What format do you use on your MEDIA Player?

[edro]

I always use MP3, but I hear that WMA is smaller and sounds about the same since it is just an MP3 player and not a professional stereo.

I am using earbuds, so quality doesn't have to be that good...

What KBPS is the best sound to size ratio?

I am mainly interested in what quality setting you guys set your WMAs to...

I have a 256mb MP3 player.

 

[Crusty]

cheater!!!

 

[CaseTragedy]

wma@40 i think

 

[Looney]

WMA is smaller and does sound the same (at least to me, but i'm no audiophile).

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I use MP3 because my iPod doesn't play WMA (no surprise there!). I used WMA when I had a Creative Nomad II MG, but was nonplussed when all my licenses expired somehow and the player appeared to be dead. I actually had Amex Blue send me a check for it before I figured out what was going on (I called them back and destroyed the check). Damn you Microsoft!!!

 

[NightCrawler]

mainly mp3's...sometimes ogg.

 

[notfred]

MP3 and AAC.

 

[rh71]

mp3 only... I don't like to mix and match.

 

[Darien]

mp3, ape, mpc

 

[MazerRackham]

AAC (mp4)

 

[Vertimus]

FLAC only. It's the only opensource loseless compression I know of.

 

[BatmanNate]

Poll!

MP3 for me, I like to maintain consistency, and it's what my deck will play.

 

[Derango]

MP3/AAC Take a guess at what player I have

 

[BCYL]

Originally posted by: Don_Vito
I use MP3 because my iPod doesn't play WMA (no surprise there!). I used WMA when I had a Creative Nomad II MG, but was nonplussed when all my licenses expired somehow and the player appeared to be dead. I actually had Amex Blue send me a check for it before I figured out what was going on (I called them back and destroyed the check). Damn you Microsoft!!!

WTH did you destroy the cheque???

 

[PowerMacG5]

160 kbps Mp3 for everything I rip, and AAC for all the things from the iTunes Music Store.

 

[dpm]

mp3s. I started ripping my cds to mp3 a long time ago, and I'm too lazy to change that now.

Plus, with an ipod, I don't have too much choice anyway.

 

[Alkaline5]

WMA at most bitrates sounds terribly "hollow" to me on my 4.1 system (ok mids, but bad bass and even worse treble). I figure if I'm going to encode at high bitrates anyway that I may as well stick with MP3.
It's been a while since I've used AAC, but I remember liking it.

 

[fs5]

mp3

 

[TechnoKid]

LAME MP3 encoder, either the alt-preset standard or the alt-preset extreme. Alt-preset insane for archiving. If I do CBR encoding, I will use alt-preset CBR at 192k and up.

For WMA, I use at least 128k CBR, more likely I will use 160k CBR. For VBR, I use 135k-215k.

 

[loup garou]

wma lossless, automatically gets downsampled to 160kbps cbr wma on transfer to my rio karma.

 

[Sid59]

mpc .. archive in ape

 

[PrinceofWands]

OGG. I rip variable, equivalent to a 6-7 which translates to variable 192 for the rest of you. Speaking of ogg's, I just bought 2 more 250gb drives this morning at Fry's for my ogg server. Gotta love having too much music to fit on the 2 250's I already had.

 

[glareman]

wma

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

mp3, variable bitrate, -alt preset standard lame encoder

 

[sparkyclarky]

MP3 LAME alt-preset standard with the last version that was optimized for the presets - works great for most tunes