| thetonestarr said: What you're completely failing to consider is the fact that CDs are burnt at 128Kbps, so 99.9% of the MP3s out there are at 128Kbps bitrate quality (even if they're ripped at a higher bitrate). Additionally, any higher than 128Kbps gets difficult to hear the difference. And above 192Kbps is impossible for anybody untrained to hear a difference. So, the lack of an advantage at higher bitrates is pretty negligible. Lastly, it's not just sound quality that's better. AAC files are also a smaller filesize at the same bitrate - so not only does it at least offer equal quality (and higher, at low bitrates), but it does it while taking less space.
|
You, sir, should talk less about topics you do not know about.
CDs (redbook, or ISO 9660) contain uncompressed audio - 16 bit samples, 44,100 samples per second, two channels - or 1411kbps.
Many ears can hear the difference between a 128k MP3 and a CD. Far fewer can hear the difference between a 256k MP3 - but ears will vary.
And the last bit "smaller at the same bitrate" - umm, no. Bitrate is what defines the file size - it's the number of bits used to represent a second of audio. 128kbps = 128,000 bits (or 16,000 bytes) of audio per second. Period. For every format. That's what it means. 128kbps music takes "about 1MB per minute" simply because 128,000/8 = 16,000 * 60 = 960,000 bytes per minute.
