GreenMan Wrote: > My understanding of this part of digital music is very shallow, so bear > with me if I'm off base with the question in part or completely. > > I know that redbook CDs are sampled at 44.1Hz. When I rip these to a > lossless format, I presume I'm getting the full information from the > original sampling. But I assume that an inadequate bitrate will degrade > the listening experience. > > So, my question is: What bitrate do I need to rip at to get the full > benefit of lossless ripping of a standard 44.1Hz redbook cd? > > Thanks in advance.
Various lossless compression schemes will result in different bitrates. And some schemes (like FLAC) allow you to specify the level of compression, with different levels resulting in different bitrates. Picking a higher level of compression will result in much longer encoding times and a lower bitrate, but when we're discussing lossless compression, the bitrate HAS NO IMPACT ON SOUND QUALITY. That's the whole point of *lossless*. There's no loss of any kind when the audio is decompressed. The bitrate only reflects how much the codec was able to compress the file. Think of it like a .zip archive. No data is lost when you zip a file, but some files can be zipped more than others, and most zipping tools allow you to pick how aggressively you want the file zipped. The tradeoff is always a time/size tradeoff; the quality of the data is never compromised. -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26031 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
