Posted by fluffy cupcake on 01/13/07 01:58

I read this on a website:

"Further note that increasing the bitrate is not advised. Increasing
the bitrate of an existing MP3 file will do nothing to improve the
quality of the MP3 file. MP3 files use "lossy" compression to obtain
suitable file sizes; that lossy compression has already been performed
to achieve the current bitrate. Uncompressing (or Decoding) an MP3 file
cannot restore the original audio data which was "compressed out"
during the MP3 encoding process. As such, increasing the bitrate will
not be able to add anything further to the file except wasted space."

http://www.zittware.com/Products/CDMaster32/Tutorials/mp3_bitrate_conversion.html

I have a video/audio converter and it can alter mp3 bitrates. Is there
any point in doing this? Will changing a MP3 from128 kbps to 320 kbps
make any difference? Will it improve the sound quality?

Thanks if anyone can help.

Fluffy

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