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SbuxBlaze
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What would be the best format and bitrate to rip music in for it to sound the best? I have an iPod Touch 2G with enough space to double the size of all the music, but I wanted to know what was best. I've read about ACC that it sounds better than MP3 and also takes up less space, would anyone agree it sounds better?
Looking for some opinions 
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GoSco
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| Sun 16 Nov - 13:38 |
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| FLAC is the best but the file sizes are huge. |
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IINexusII
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| Mon 17 Nov - 15:27 |
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| yeah aac format stil keeps the sound quality with a nice compressed size over MP3. you could also try lowering the bitrate on the mp3 files to something around 128. i think anything lower would decrease sound quality. |
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Cash Eye
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| Tue 18 Nov - 18:19 |
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Why dont you just go 256 bit rate encoding with AAC.
Music with 128 bitrate is not really that good, specially if you want to use it on your PC (if you have good speakers) or listen to it on a stereo system (you'll notice the quality)
But if you want the BEST of the best then you might wanna go with FLAC or ALAC, both are lossless formats, so its like listening to the music straight from the CD but the downside is that it takes alot of space.
If you want to stick with MP3s then encode in higher bitrates than 128, trust me. |
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SbuxBlaze
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| Tue 18 Nov - 18:34 |
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| Cash Eye wrote: | Why dont you just go 256 bit rate encoding with AAC.
Music with 128 bitrate is not really that good, specially if you want to use it on your PC (if you have good speakers) or listen to it on a stereo system (you'll notice the quality)
But if you want the BEST of the best then you might wanna go with FLAC or ALAC, both are lossless formats, so its like listening to the music straight from the CD but the downside is that it takes alot of space.
If you want to stick with MP3s then encode in higher bitrates than 128, trust me. |
Right now I keep 95% of my music 192kbps or above and prefer VBR bitrates. I've been using MP3 for a long time, so I was just wondering which format/bitrate would be best for listening on iPod
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Cash Eye
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| Tue 18 Nov - 22:06 |
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| That should be fine if is for your iPod ^^ |
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pjdark
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| Yesterday at 9:15 |
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Yeah FLAC is the best. Losless FTW! lol. 192 bitrate  |
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BOyOfWONDEr
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| Yesterday at 11:49 |
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Unfortunately FLAC aint supported by ze iPod, on my old 5G with rockbox you could use FLAC and OGG. MUSIC ORGASM 
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GoSco
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| Yesterday at 11:58 |
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| Most of my tracks are either 256 or 320bpm. Anything less than 128 would be poor. |
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