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"MP3" can mean a lot of things (to some people it just means "digital music"). Quality depends on the bitrate, on CBR vs VBR, on the encoder used, on the playba

"MP3" can mean a lot of things (to some people it just means "digital music"). Quality depends on the bitrate, on CBR vs VBR, on the encoder used, on the playback device, etc. Personally, I ripped most of my CDs in 256kbs VBR AAC (no DRM), and that's fine for me. But I wouldn't go back to 128kbps MP3s (especially if encoded with something else than LAME). I'd love to use more OGG Vorbis, but iTunes just plays better with AAC (even if you install the quicktime codec, you can't have the artwork inside the files).

masklinn 17y ago
> "MP3" can mean a lot of things (to some people it just means "digital music"). Quality depends on the bitrate, on CBR vs VBR, on the encoder used, on the playback device, etc. Yeah but every time you need to transcode your music to the next format of the day, you're going to lose a bit of quality. And the losses multiply too, they don't just add from one lossy format to one another. If you store your music in a lossless format, you just have to come back to your lossless copy to create each lossily-generated copy, and you'll only ever have the losses of this transcoding.