A few weeks back, one thousand of our readers participated in our MP3 bitrate test. Today, with the little help of a stats expert, we have results—and a recommended rip rate that most of you can ...

Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Can't believe how quickly CDs went from something I hate storing to something I hate ...

As such, you're more likely to notice certain imperfections that come with compressing music into lower bitrate files. You may notice that a certain level of detail is missing in low-quality MP3s ...

No sound snobbery. I’m simply asking the age-old question: At what bitrate should we encode MP3s? And I need your help. This test is occurring in two parts. In part one, I’m sampling three ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on ...

No, and the differences can be noticeable. When creating an MP3 from a source, whether it’s CD or even vinyl, you choose a bitrate and a sample rate — these two values will determine how big ...

128k.mp3")"; done Lowering the bitrate makes audio files smaller, while raising it makes them larger. Note that reducing the ...

I'm sure a conversion is possible; however, your taking lossy, and converting to lossy (that is low bit rate no less) so you are going to get a pretty ugly sounding track. I'm not sure what kind ...

BR><BR>I don't see a feature in iTunes to export songs to MP3 files at a different bitrate. Can someone help me out?

Amazon's upcoming plan to sell unprotected MP3s remains shrouded in secrecy, as a company spokesperson refused to divulge the price or bit rate of the songs. The launch date also remains a mystery ...

To MP3 Converter Free (macOS ... The software also allows you to change the output from a constant bitrate to a variable bitrate and transfer tags from the source file. An annual subscription ...