gdg;159301 Wrote: > Any idea how this compares to the 16bit 44khz cd standard? (I have no > idea what bitrates mean). The bitrates mentioned above generally refer to MP3 encoding bitrates. They're far below CD quality, but the MP3 encoding techniques try to intelligently work around that, so that the information lost is that which is least important to the human mind & ear.
I find that Internet radio bitrates are fine for talk radio and discovering new music, and occasionally for background music, but not much else. I'd never consider encoding anything other than speech, even for an iPod, at less that 128kpbs, and this rate is at or near the very _upper_ end of the spectrum for streaming radio. Most of the stations in my neck of the woods call 64kbps their "high speed" stream, and many offer nothing better than 32kpbs. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30256 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
