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Curse you, itunes! / Can I really tell the difference between bitrates?
october1983:
I didn't notice for so long because I've been listening to everything through my laptop's speaker ever since my other speakers went mysteriously missing after a party. I really need to sort that out.
kablaaamo:
I rip at 256; I have two homes (student apt, parents' basement) and at one of the two, I have a pretty nice stereo. On that, I can definitely hear the difference up to 160....
But then I still rip at 256. It's like chocolate. Sure, you can't really tell the difference in quality after a certain point, but Godiva is still so good.
Mnementh:
--- Quote from: Dimmukane on 21 Nov 2007, 20:41 ---I always rip at 320, too, because I can hear the difference between it and 256. It's not that big a difference unless you turn your music up a bit (which I do)
--- End quote ---
Right now I'm just using an old iTrip, but I imagine I'll really notice the difference when I get the iPod hooked up directly to my car stereo.
Spinless:
Hah, just a few months ago when I smashed my laptop, I was able to back up about half my music to my PC. That's about 10gb. I thought I'd be able to get all my music back from the old laptop, but this wasn't the case. Don't ask me how or why I did this (it involves software from Creative if you're interested), but I somehow managed to convert all my music on the PC from 256kbps mp3s to WMA files ranging from 32kbps to 64 kbps.
I could definitely tell the the difference. It was about 2 months I was listening to this music until I got a new laptop and started to replace it all.
muteKi:
Yeah, 96 is usually too low for me, but I do it if I'm ripping off an old album where the source data isn't too high in audio quality.
128 is usually near-lossless for me, but if some music is high on cymbal use, the compression artifacts are noticeable.
It depends on the source material, sort of like how a jpg of a picture taken with a camera looks good but a jpg of a rip of my desktop or a hand-drawn image through, say, photoshop has more noticeable artifacts as a result.
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