Song Quality?

[CaliHwyPatrol]

I just had a friend send me a song and it is 3 and a half minutes long and came in at 36mb, putting it at 1411kbps...

I've never seen a song this high... The highest I have is 320, am I just out of it or is there a bit rate that high?

~Chuck

 

[krzywica]

Yea.......um maybe? I use WMP lossless and most of my bit rates are around the 900+ mark.

 

[CaliHwyPatrol]

Wow... weird... I guess I've just been out of the loop...

Is there a significant difference? I have yet to put this song on a cd and run it up against my 128 and 320kbps songs.

~Chuck

 

[krzywica]

Coming off an on board sound card, no. With a good pci or outboard card, hell yes. And burning on to a cd, definetly! 128 really sucks. They say, oh we only take the bits and pieces out that are inaudible to creat the mp3 format, but unless you are wearing earbuds you will see a huge diff

 

[MDS]

I just had a friend send me a song and it is 3 and a half minutes long and came in at 36mb, putting it at 1411kbps...

I've never seen a song this high... The highest I have is 320, am I just out of it or is there a bit rate that high?

~Chuck

1411 kbps is 2 channels at 44.1/16; ie uncompressed PCM from a CD.

 

[Francious70]

I.E. a .wav file.

 

[Bevan]

my mac rips at 1411kb and calls it AIFF.

my girlfriends pc rips at 15??kb and i think that is called WAV?

 

[Francious70]

Wow... weird... I guess I've just been out of the loop...

Is there a significant difference? I have yet to put this song on a cd and run it up against my 128 and 320kbps songs.

~Chuck

The higher bit rate of a song, the better it's going to sound/look/smeel/taste, whatever. There is more resolution with the higher bit rates.

 

[MDS]

AIFF = Audio Interchange File Format. It is an uncompressed format just like WAV, but used mostly on Macs and other systems that run Unix. WAV is the standard that originated on Windows but is now universally supported.

WAV and AIFF files are nothing more than a header that includes information such as the bit depth, number of channels, sampling rate, etc followed by the raw PCM samples. Think of them as the lowest common denominator in digital audio.

 

[gellor]

The higher bit rate of a song, the better it's going to sound/look/smeel/taste, whatever. There is more resolution with the higher bit rates.

I don't know about that...I've heard a good bit of music lately at high bitrate that still had a definite odor. One might almost say it stank. I don't think that bitrate has all that much to do with smell.

Sound on the other hand...depends on who you talk to.