Music Quality

[wolfxin]

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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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[launchpad67a]

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?

[Norm]

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

[wolfxin]

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.

[Norm]

wolfxin.

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

Norm

[Jcuzzo22]

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

[Lord of the Rings]

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!!!

[launchpad67a]

Originally posted by Lord of the Rings
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!

[Jcuzzo22]

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

[Lord of the Rings]

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.)