shirling & neueweise wrote:
i too find 192 the minimum for listening (128 i find actually painful to
listen to for more than brief periods), but it depends on your
intentions with the mp3s. if there is a link beside the mp3 link to buy
the album (for example), then 128 (or even lower) as only an example of
the artist's work may be fine, and, who knows, may even discourage some
from making the extra effort to rip because of the mp3's poor sound
quality.
As a matter of fact, using a low bitrate is the best deterrent to
improper downloading or saving of the audio files.
I find that 128 is acceptable enough to listen to in order to get a good
idea of how the music sounds but is poor enough that I certainly
wouldn't save it and listen to it over and over again.
And even lower is less likely to be saved/downloaded and shared.
One important thing for Andrew to remember in deciding what to do with
the audio stuff is that not everybody is on broadband and that the audio
file should be small enough to be fairly reasonable for modem users or
folks who have to pay by the minute to want to take the time to download.
--
David H. Bailey
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