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Posted by Geena Phillips on 09/20/06 15:22
DK wrote:
> In article <3-ydnTqbuejmL5vYnZ2dnUVZ_uudnZ2d@comcast.com>, gbeenie@comcast.net wrote:
>
>>trippy wrote:
>>
>>iTunes has a CD burning function. You can then take the tracks on that
>>CD and do whatever you want with them. All my purchased iTunes tracks
>>get converted to 320mbps .mp3s almost immediately.
>
>
> Which is silly. iTunes Store uses lousy 128 kbps AAC format which is
> an equivalent of 160 kbps mp3. Using 320K on these achieves only one
> thing - blows the size of the file.
What can I tell you? I prefer to have all my .mp3s the same bitrate and,
since most of the music on my computer comes from my CD collection, I
want that bitrate to be as high as possible. Besides, I use iTunes
primarily for podcasts, and other places I buy music use more favorable
bitrates.
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