Posted by anthonyberet on 07/02/07 22:38

Zilbandy wrote:
> I just acquired a bunch of mp3's and many of them are recorded at
> 320kbps, which results in a fairly large file size. I'm getting older,
> and my hearing is not what it use to be, by a long shot. :) My wife
> won't let me buy another USB hard drive right now, so to save space,
> I'm considering converting these files to 128kbps at 44.1khz sampling
> rate. This results in file sizes half the size. I have a couple of
> audio programs that will do this, and my experimenting so far has had
> very good results, at least to my ears. I was hoping to get some
> comments from others... with good hearing. :) It's my understanding
> that 128kbps at 44.1kb sampling rate is considered CD quality, or near
> CD quality. Comments welcome. :)
>
It is considered lower than CD quality, but to be honest, what matters
to you is how it sounds to you.
For sharing, these days folk prefer larger files, as many people have
broadband. Having said that, there must be dial-uppers around who would
pick smaller files.

How about buying an internal PCI drive, which your wife wont be able to
see, and wont need extra space and cables? ;o)
- They are getting very cheap per megabyte nowadays.

Another option would be to burn to CD or DVD, but this is actually more
expensive than a new HD, byte for byte.

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