What quality and what file type do you use on your mp3 player?

[Cabages]

So whats your best space saving recommendations?

I can play MP3, WMA, WAV and Audible, but im looking to keep good sounding music, but shrink down the sizes. It would also be nice to have it be pretty comparable sounding on my computer to mp3's

You guys got any suggestions?

 

[Schadenfroh]

320K MP3s personally (a format that works on ALL of my devices). But, that are quite large. From what I have read, ATRAC is up there as far as sounding better at low bitrates than MP3s of the same low bitrate, but it is proprietary city and I highly recommend against it. For your situation (since it is out of the question), WMA will probably sound slightly better than MP3s of the same low bit rates, but I doubt it will be much of an improvement.


Does your MP3 player support RockBox? If so, you would (probably) have access to a variety of other formats.
http://www.rockbox.org/

 

[Shawn]

--alt-preset standard

 

[darkswordsman17]

I would say 225kbps LAME encoded MP3s should be about the best as far as quality/size. On your computer I would recommend storing/backing your music up as FLAC. I use Foobar, and its got the LAME encoder built-in. Media-Monkey is also good for organizing and tagging (I think you can have it auto-tag your stuff which needless to say saves quite a bit of time).

 

[biggestmuff]

Why don't you encode a few sections of your favorite songs, or the entire songs, at different bitrates and using different codecs. Start by listening to the two highest bitrates files. If you can't perceive the difference, throw out the highest file and then compare the second and third highest bitrate files. Keep doing this until you can begin hearing a difference.

 

[Dman877]

It depends on what you listen to mp3's with imo. I use some el cheapo feather weight sony headphones with my mp3 player and i can't tell the dif between 96 kbps and 256 kbps. Put that on my stereo though, and the 96 kbps will make me cringe.

 

[potato28]

V1, V0, V2 LAME MP3's and V5 ogg's on Rockbox. Some flac's, but very rarely I use them for portable.