What bitrate do you encode at?

[seadzz]

Some ifp users want to stuff their players with the most music files possible. Others are more concerned with maximum quality tunes. Where do you stand?

Take our pole to find out who is doing what.

sdz

[gdog]

160+.
I'll take the quality, at least to a degree that I can hear, over quantity any day. Or at least my wife will, until she learns how to rip her own music. The iFP is hers after all.

gdog

[moonsparrow]

The lowest WMA I can get away with without losing too much quality. Depends a lot on the original mix. Low quality recordings can go all the way down to 48kbps without losing anything, I've found. Some stuff with a lot of distorted guitars and crash cymbals sounds hideous at anything less than 160.

[dimitri_souza]

My entire MP3 library is encoded at a minimum of 160 kpbs (CBR or AVR).

I found out that the best relationship between size an quality (when copying files to my IFP) is OGG @ 96kbps. I also discovered that I'm not able to perceive any serious degradation when reencoding my MP3@160 to OGG@96 before copying to my IFP.

So my choice would be OGG@96kpbs *IF* the support for OGG would be as good as MP3. As this is not true (at least in the current firmware 1.28 UMS), I'm using MP3@160.

I'm really hoping that IRIVER will fix the OGG issues (such as lower volume, click'n'pops between OGG tracks and the minimum limit of 96kbps for OGGs) in the next future, so I would be able to use my IFP as originally planned when I bought it.

Dimitri

[HT2791]

mp3's 160+kbs

[CheeseBurgerMan]

128kbps CBR mp3.

[davidd]

OGG Vorbis, -q6 (~192K)

[kero]

-alt preset standard (VBR) mp3.. which ranges from 128kbps to 320kbps. If not that I usually have albums in 192kbps, usually Lame encoded.

[assa9]

I use mine with a cassette adapter in my POS car. Quality isn't really an issue.
...96kbpsish

[kin242]

ogg level 6

[jpski]

160 to 192

[92Rocks-on-ur-head]

for mp3's a higher rate is probably a good idea, but to save space on my mp3 player (it's not an iFP) i generally use WMA 64 kbps.

For me, the audio quality is just fine, and I save a ton of space. I'm not a real stickler on the qaulity, 'cause I just enjoy my music, and don't tune my ears to listen for any tiny mistakes there may be.

If you have trouble converting your music, to the bitrate you want, I suggest a cool program called Goldwave (just google it)

[mandel]

All my music is WMA @ 192 kps, at CBR, for my H300

[captures_polar_bears]

alt preset standard (~160) LAME mp3

[sirwilliam]

I must sound very anal, because I encode all my mp3's at 256 cbr, have considered lowering it for my h320 useing a batch encode program, but i hate hearing any quality loss. at 256, you cant hear it.

this is my first post hey.

[iancraig10]

Speech - 96wma
OK Music - 128 wma
Music where original is a bit duff - 160-190 mp3
The music I lurve - 320mp3

So - it depends on priority. (Space and quality balanced with my musical preferences)

[iancraig10]

Originally Posted by mOOzilla

I use 0kbps, amazing compression rates! Its losey though.

I've done one at that rate. Superb signal to noise ratio. Works well with tunes like 'Silent Night'.