Posted by agalland2 on 06/12/06 21:02

On Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:10:10 -0400, NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:

>agalland2 wrote:
>> On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:14:23 -0500, agalland2 <agalland2@cox.net>
>> 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. 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 ? What do they use on commercial CDs ?
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated. And I want to thank you all for
>>> any help.
>>>
>>> Allen
>>
>> I use the Windows Media Player to burn the mp3s I collect. The
>> Windows Media Player converts the mp3s to wav files, if I understand
>> it correctly. But I was told that if I try to burn an mp3 (even after
>> the file change) that it should be 160kbs for quality sound.
>
>If you're taking MP3's and you want to burn them as MP3's, then the best
>way to do so would be as-is, because converting to a different "kbs"
>will hurt the quality, even if it's a higher "kbs".
>
>- NRen2k5

The CD player I have in the house (not on the computer) does
not play mp3s nor does the player in my car. So I assumed the Windows
Media Player was converting because the majority of players use wav
files. But your telling me that weither I use 128 or 160 that the rate
is converted to what ever the wav file uses for the burning.?

Should I use 128kbs mp3s to start with or should I stay at at least
160kbs to begin with ?

Thank You
Allen

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