Posted by agalland2 on 06/13/06 20:34

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:36:06 -0400, NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:

>agalland2 wrote:
>> 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.
>
>Oh.
>
>> 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.?
>
>That's right.
>
>> Should I use 128kbs mp3s to start with or should I stay at at least
>> 160kbs to begin with ?
>
>If 128kbps sounds fine to your ears, then you might as well use it.
>
>Where are these MP3's coming from?
>
>- NRen2k5
If you use Agent just do a mp3 search. Probably the same thing
with Outlook Express.

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