gdg;159325 Wrote: > That helps. The reason I was asking is because I am running a very high > end system and was curious about how internet radio stacks up against > CD (which I consider pretty bad). 128 compared to 1400... wow, that's > pretty bad. On the other hand I was intending to only use the radio for > backround dance/techno where the quality doesn't really matter much > anyway. > Gerry
just comparing bit rates is not fair. The other thing to consider is that mp3 encoders have improved a ton in the last 5 years. Because lossy encoding methods trade CPU power at encoding time for space usage, you can improve things. 128bps now is much different than it was not too long ago. There are other encoding formats that sound better than mp3. Some streaming stations offer aacPlus, wma, or ogg encoding. They can use much lower bitrates, while still having the same quality as a 128k mp3 stream. For background listening like you suggest, most of these formats are just fine. -- SuperQ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SuperQ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2139 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30256 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
