Posted by NRen2k5 on 06/10/06 12:01

agalland2 wrote:
> First I do CDs mainly for my car. I was told that VBR will not work
> except in the computer. I found that to be true.

It's not necessarily true. There are plenty of MP3 players that can play
VBR just fine. Maybe not all that many *car* MP3 players, though.

> Now someone is
> telling me I should not download anything under 160kbs so I can have
> reasonable quality on the CD. Now another person is telling me that my
> bottom line should be 128kbs. Does anyone out there know the
> guidelines ?

The guidelines are as simple as this:
If you're just making the music for yourself, then use whatever sounds
good to your ears.

> What do they use on commercial CDs ?

Commercial CD's are not MP3. They're an uncompressed format which is
about 1411kbps.

- NRen2k5

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