When I rip my mp3s

[shortspanishguy]

encode at a constant 320 kbps or use a VBR

 

[Gurck]

Neither, 192kb ogg.

 

[BW86]

Rip them to OGG instead.

Or if you have enough space rip them to flac.

If you don't know what OGG is, it is an open-source lossy audio compression algorithm similar to Mp3 but with better quality per bit.

 

[DaveSimmons]

FLAC if you have the space, you can then transcode to lossy formats for a portable as needed without lossy-to-lossy quality drops.

Otherwise, LAME -alt-preset-extreme for 192kbps VBR is acceptable, I transcoded to that from FLAC to fill up my Zen Xtra.

 

[Leros]

I rip to 192kpbs, but I dont really care about quality.

 

[shilala]

Talk to Skoorb. He knows all about ripping cd's, I'm sure he can help with mp3's.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

I just rip @ 192

Can't tell a difference between that and anything higher.

 

VBR 192.

--alt-preset-standard

 

[Scarpozzi]

Yep....actually, the human ear can't tell much diff between 128 and 192....but definitely go higher so you have less loss when you reburn down the road.