Okay, this is simply my curiosity but..

What is the deal with those bitrate mp3's that are great quality.. and usually listed at 190kbps and when ure dl'ing an album their one proceeding it is like one bit rate lower.. but the file size is great and so is the quality

when you play them.. the mp3 player has trouble with the actual bit rate and toggles between all availible bitrates possible?


Just wonderin..

Yeah..toggling between bitrates is an ongoing problem with this kind of technology and probably deserves a thread of its own.

But your question is about those great quality bitrate mp3s and a whole other kettle of beans. The compression files used to reprocess these datum are really very efficient, as are the zoom-gifs for files and pictures and such; but a little bit of file compression goes a long way in renegotiating the kpb fraction quotient.

But I'm no expert...

2the9s said:

2the9s said:

But you are an idiot....

Sdldawn said:

If your player is displaying differing bit-rates as the music plays, the files must be Variable Bit Rate encoded. It's normal and definitely not trouble. I always use Joint-Stereo and VBR to encode my files.

I could be wrong on this, so don't hold this as the truth, lol, but I think variable bit rate is a feature aimed at streaming music. If you are listening to a track in streaming format, it will adjust to the best bitrate based on your connection speed, so if your connection starts to slow down, it adjusts to a lower bitrate as its playing.

For regular mp3s that you are just going to download, personally, I don't like anything less than 160kbps. At 128kbps, theres an obvious loss of quality.

Tom said:

You're getting confused with multibitrate streaming. That's where you have a "package" and within that package are two or more separate media files encoded at different rates.

There really isn't any discernible loss of quality between 160kbps and 128kbps if you encode using the latest version of LAME in High Quality with Joint-Stereo running VBR between 32kbps and 128kbps.

The esiest way is to find the CD at your local library and just copy it so that all the songs are the same bitrate.

Oh, did I just say that? Umm...well, this is what I've heard, anyway.

Kool thanks 4 everyones input...