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Reduce existing MP3 bit rate in iTunes
Authored by: DougAdams on Feb 20, '03 03:13:01PM
We've had the AppleScript Downcoder by John Paul Davis in the archives since last Summer. Go man, go.

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Reduce existing MP3 bit rate in iTunes
Authored by: tsugaru on Feb 20, '03 03:34:18PM

I understand for audio books and voice recordings where downsampling an MP3 is beneficial, but not for music. Geez. IMO, anything below 320kbps Stereo CBR 44.1khz in iTunes, or 256kbps Stereo CBR 44.1khz in LAME is atrocious. I have re-ripped all my albums and kept all my >=192kbps songs, and they still only take 6GB. Geez. With hard drives now a day, that is nothing for the amount of music (~4days in my case) that we all have.)



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Reduce existing MP3 bit rate in iTunes
Authored by: kerouassady on Feb 20, '03 09:17:19PM

I use 192kbps with VBR set to highest quality which usually bumps them to around 200 (204-210) and I can't tell the difference at that point. Between 128 and 192, I hear a distinct difference. I am one of the few people I know that can. I guess being a musician, I'm focused more on the sound. With acoustic stuff, which is a lot of what I have, I can hear the difference in the high highs and low lows and an in some of the warmth of the sound. Things are a little more hollow and I can really tell it in the "instrument noise" like the fingers moving on the guitar neck.



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