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Re: What mp3 quality do you want?

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Eric LoganJul 17, 2009
 

 
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:32 AM, kj.naughton <kj.naughton@...> wrote:

> This raises an interesting point. A high bitrate is of little use when the original source was of a lower quality. A recording from a good FM signal will benefit from a high rate; one from an old cassette recording from LW won't.

I agree; no point in upsampling where it won't help.

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> Personally I like to have as many episodes as possible on my MP3 player and then have it on shuffle so I get a random episode each time. So I prefer smaller files as that gives me more on my MP3 player.
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> Neither do I listen for JaM for the audio quality. Except where the quality significantly detracts from the programme, I prefer content over "quality of signal" every time. Music and speech have (IMHO) very different requirements here.
>

If you want to downsample (i.e., make smaller files) for your own
purposes, feel free (it's a nearly trivial process these days), but
it's not like we're being forced to choose between content and quality
of signal.  Why choose lower quality if we don't have to?  As Mark
points out, these recordings will probably be kicking around for a
long time, and it's pretty hard to make better recordings out of worse
ones.

But as I've said before, I hear the difference, and so much prefer the
better.  For me, music and speech aren't all that different.

--E

 
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