Bitrate huh!
 

G'day to one an all, Whats this bitrate business all about man i'm confused.

bit rate tells you how much data per second is used to give you the content, mostly higher bit-rate is better quality music, lower bit-rate is mostly lesser quality music.

you should aim for a bitrate of 192kbit/s this is good quality, average filesize, most used bitrate out there

although i prefer 320kbit/s for freshly ripped music.
music ripped at 192kbit/s is good enough tho, and doesn't make a 4min mp3 10megs :D

Bitrate is the quality of a file. The higher the better, but the bigger the file so the longer the download time.

Personally I find 128 stereo adequate for some of the old rubish I listen to. !92 is generally accepted as the minimum for high quality, and anything over that should be excellent. Of course it doesn't always work like that but it does in general.

BTW please do not double post questions. You can delete your other post by selecting edit.

alright
 

cheers for that

I can't remember where i posted my other question

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...threadid=47389 :)

yee hawwwww
 

its deleted, cool as this like!

I'm trying to work out if South Shields is in Australia, Texas or the North of England! :):) Welcome to Limewire and the forums:)

didn't i explain any of that in the post i made lol?

192kbit is best in my opinion, since it has best of both worlds, good quality, not too big a file

but as i said, i prefer 320kbit when i rip myself for personal use only :D

I just type slower:D

ahh sorry, wel maybe so :D

I'm from the north east of england :) A good to town, alota charvas though:mad:

I thought you might be but the G'day and the Yehaaaaaa had me wondering:D:D

Personally I use VBR for encoding. So if it's set to 160 kbps for example (using iTunes), it may well end up being a 241 kbps as happened to me some hours ago. (or could be less than 160) Besides, digital players handle VBR much better than CBR (Constant Bit Rate) & that applies to both audio & video. Not to mention the actual encoding improvements by spending equal bit rates upon simplistic music bits compared to complex bits as happens with CBR (ie: VBR spends more bit rates upon complex audio parts than those that are more easily compressed.) I personally don't encode at below 192 unless it's a song I'm not over-enthusiastic about or "some" heavy metal or the original sound quality doesn't deserve/require high bit rates. My favourites always get 320 kbps VBR or 256 VBR.

Anything below 30 kbps is only intended for talk recordings such as perhaps comedy. I guess similar to those cheap talk cassette tapes one could buy once upon a time. Music sounded disastrous on them. But digitally, just talk is fine (I suppose.)

Oh well just my thoughts & opinion for what it's worth.

yeah, your right about vbr and cbr, but it's just that 192 is the current standard, to go bye, it says so in WMP even if it's vbr encoded :D if the overal file is 192, or atleast i tought so :D

What do you mean it says so in wmp? Do you mean that's the default setting? Default settings don't necessarily mean much. Different music will compress at different qualities at the same bit-rate (if using CBR.) So all music parts will be compressed at 192 when some could have been done at 128 & other parts at over 200 because they needed that xtra bit rate info to preserve the quality. That's what VBR allows. CBR doesn't. But all the same, 192 CBR is quite ok. Anything below 160 I'd be dubious about. Sometimes the lower bit rates are fine, sometimes quite poor. It can depend on encoder software used also. And for some, the parameters/settings.

i mean if you play a song, you see what the bitrate is, i never see it varying during the song, even if it's VBR encoded that's what i mean.