No way, takes me about 2 minutes to download, it's called bitrate, and if you're complaining about this, thank god i'm not one of the people listening to your music.

that's the usual size of 320kb mp3s of the given length..

DJ RapMaRz, for me 10mb is to much, i like to use 128kb - 192kb.. it sounds very good. its not always the bitrate that matter its the equlization of the song that counts.. i have 96kb songs that sound better or just as good as 192kb. i feel u DJ RapMaRz

^^^ but lower bit ratetends to sound like crap on bigger systems... I only encode at 256bit or higher when i rip from cd's myself... anything less and I can hear the distortion.... I have run accross files done at very low rates that sound good.. untill i hear them in the club that is and the club system brings out the distortion!

128?! i would never ever play a 128kb mp3 in a club.. not even if it was directly from the artist

It's 320kbps or nothing as far as I'm concerned. If you play on a large soundsystem, the difference between bitrates is huge. I would neither embarass myself nor disrespect an artist by playing a low bitrate version of their production.

so you guys are saying if a music file is lower than 256kbps it needs to be converted to at least 256? at the moment im also using mp3 gain to level out the volumes of my songs and distortion

You can't get more quality out of a track by changing its bitrate. You will only lose quality. So converting a 128kbit mp3 to 320kbit will actually possibly result in less quality, not more.

Really? so then whats the whole point of converting bitrates? anyway that was helpful knowledge. so to change the bitrate on my mp3s i would have to re rip them all over again? thats crazy.

No point at all :) The only time you would want to change the bitrate of an mp3 is if you were going from a high bitrate (ie high quality) to low bitrate to save space, say if you were copying it to a cellphone with limited space or something like that.



Yep. Basically what mp3 encoding does is it throws away sound information to make the files smaller. The lower the bitrate the more information it throws away. Once that information is thrown away it's gone, there's no getting it back. So if you want more sound quality you have to start again from the original source, ie the source that had all the sound information, the CD or vinyl.

ooohhhhhhh ok, i understand now. i didnt know that. thanks alot!!!! im gonna have alot of work to do cuz i wanna change all my files now. it making me tired just thinking about it LOL. i have over 20,000 songs. i think i might wanna make my library alot smaller.

98kbp? Good luck playing that out in the clubs...

I don't play anything below 192kb out, 320kb is a little beefed up but there's a solution for that. Sam's has 400 gig external drives for 157$ ;)

but what brand are they and how reliable are they?

They is Seagate 400 gig 7200 rpm 8mb cache, have had no trouble out of it. Not that it makes much of a difference but it's got to firewire ports and one usb 2.0 port. Get on it!! ;)

someone wrote this along time ago when i was away from my computer, lol, i just noticed it right now. 4 years later!!! LoL...I never play low quality, cause if their system sux, and ur mp3 sux, then its BAD!!!