Music Quality
 

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Like to know if it possible to download a music file without pauses and breaks?

4 Stars Quality. Is that the Best LimeWire can offer. If that so, I want my money back.

The Music file is SO CRAP!!!!!!!!!


Anyone else experiencing this problem?


VERY Unsatified

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What player are you using to listen to your files?? The internal LW player mabey? Don't use it.... use Another player.
Also, look at the 'bit rate' in the far right of the search results window. Never get anything under 128.
How many stars do you need? Mp3's suck anyhow.

Make sense now?

wolfxin,

The star rating refers to the reliability of the connection itself - not the quality of the file. The quality of the file you get has nothing to do with Limewire - it is the file you downloaded from your host. If it is corrupt Limewire can't help it, they don't generate files but simply connect you to hosts that offer them - good or bad.

It sounds like you could have a player or CODEC issue. If you are using the Limewire media player get something else to play your files. You might try Musicmatch for a decent free player - get it here - http://www.musicmatch.com/download/f...tbasic_jbpromo

If you think MP3's suck then don't download them. There are other files out there.

Good luck,

Norm

Thank you
 

Many thanks to launchpad67a and Norm that reply my post.

File is GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Shouldn't Limewire warn people that using Limewire media player may not show the true Quality of the file downloaded????


Thanks God for this forum!!!

and most importantly you guys!!!!


Can't thank you enough.

wolfxin.

Thanks for letting us know. I am glad your files are working.

Norm

Music Quality
 

Quality In Decending Order:
320 Best Quality
256 Great
192 Very Good
160 Good
128 CD Quality
112 Garbage
And Anything below is also garbage

I'm not sure what you mean by 128 CD Quality? 128 makes a lot of compromises. Possibly joint stereo or even mono. Possibly top or bottom frequency levels capped. Keep in mind that the original has been reduced in size to about 1/10th of the original size by throwing out information. Or are you saying that's the minimum quality worthy of burning to a cd? For that point I would agree. ;)

There's certainly not enough people who are encoding at the higher bit rates. Personally I encode at 192 & perhaps 20-25% of time at 320 kbps. Reference: Album/song sizes & also 320 Please!!!

Yes, very good point LotR. But 128 is the 'default/standard' for encoding, therefore most people never realize there are more options and simply hit convert!
What would be great is if we could get more people to convert to at least 192 using CBR (constant bit rate) encoding. This would really help. Although, larger file sizes....always the drawback!

bitrate
 

your right. i was pretty vague in my description
sorry about that.

The default in iTunes is 192 kbps for encoding mp3's. I suppose it depends on which mp3 app you use. Different mp3 apps have different alternatives also for encoding (at the one bit-rate for example.)

so, as a newbie who is also computer illiterate (at least i am honest : ) --- do i read your posts to mean that the higher the bit rate listed for a file, the better the quality usually is?

thanks for any replies

The simple answer is yes! 320 kbps is the max quality of an mp3. The lowest is 32. Which is a waste of time in most people's books. 192 or above is definitely worth going after 'if' you have the choice. 128 -160 is not too bad, but still... Anthing less than 128 is not worth the effort in many cases.

thank you very much

you also got my post in another thread about sound quality being affected by file size

thanks for any thoughts

music quality
 

I'm having the same problem with split second breaks during all downloads at non-specific times. I've entered the question to the Support line but have head nothing as yet. You?

Yes... don't rely on the LW media player for consistent results. Use an alternative player for playback if you're having this issue. A good one which is free & has built in codecs & plays everything is QCD: http://www.quinnware.com/ Might want to make it your default player (select any mp3 file outside of LW, go to File>Properties>Open with & choose your app. Then choose always open with.)

You'd need to go to LW's menu Tools>Options>Player & untick the player option & press the Apply button. Now your default player will launch everytime you launch a song.

I downloaded a music file that has 3 stars under the quality category. However, the bit rate is 192 kpbs and the sound quality is great! The only thing is that I don't know what the stars mean.

viche12345 the stars refer to potential download quality or chances of downld success, not sound quality.

thanks