A few weeks back, one thousand of our readers participated in our MP3 bitrate test. Today, with the little help of a stats expert, we have results—and a recommended ...

Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Can't believe how quickly CDs went from something I hate storing to something I hate ...

The absolute lowest MP3 bit rate you should consider is 128kbps. This was often referred to as being CD quality, but it's far from being so. This bit rate will allow you to get much more music on to ...

We’ve all listened to digital music, right? And that means you’ve probably heard of “bitrate” or come across files that have “kbps” at the end. Thing is… what does that mean? What the hell is bitrate?

Using Gspot I get the audio info of an .avi file. Now if the audio is reported as mp3 128kbps and I demux that sound out of it and re-encode it to mp2 at say 256kbps, will that do any good or am I ...

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