wilgartw, I'm not sure if I follow you. The point of encoding MP3s at 320kbps vs. 128kbps is to improve the sound quality. A higher sampling rate roughly translates to better quality audio. It has the unfortunate side effect of increasing file size.
So you're right - lower bitrate files are smaller, so over unreliable connections, they are less likely to drop out. With less data to transfer in order to play back the whole song, your connection can likely tolerate more dropped packets before it's buffer empties. This is becuase each packet of size X contains more music when the song is encoded at 128kbps than when the song is encoded at 320kbps. But when the song does drop out, the drop out will be all or nothing - you'll go from hearing the song, exactly as the file is encoded, to hearing nothing. It's not like driving in a car, getting further and further from a radio station, and slowly hearing the signal go to static. As I read your last post, you're thinking that setting the bitrate is more of a throttling setting. If it was a throttle, then you'd be selecting the speed at which a file of contant size was sent between SC and your SB - meaning if you set the throttle too slow, you would be playing the song at a faster rate than you're sending it, and your player would have to pause in order to let the transfer catch up. Am I misunderstanding you? -- androidtopp My SB3 is the most expensive part of my stereo. So I'm not going to brag about it. http://www.last.fm/user/androidtopp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ androidtopp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19681 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=53207 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
