iPod Digital music audio quality

[Michael CM1]

Speaking of Amazon, I just went there to make sure I hadn't missed another one of their daily deals. I happened to see the Mamma Mia! soundtrack listed at $8.99. Out of curiousity, I went to iTunes to check out the price. $11.99. Hooray for competition. I just don't get what is keeping iTunes from having all DRM-free songs since I'm pretty sure every song on Amazon is. If it's the record companies, well, figures.

By the way, I know this is kinda dumb, but who in the crap came up with an audio format called "LAME"? It's apparent this person never even thought of a marketing class. "Look at all my LAME music!"

Yeah, sorry. Just listened to a George Carlin album on the way home. LET'S GO MICE!

 

[System 6]

... a 128K AAC file is broadly equivalent to somewhere between a 160K/192K MP3

This is exactly what my own listening tests have shown.

 

[Fuchal]

As long as you stick with 192kbps or greater in any format you will be hard-pressed to tell the difference in any form of ABX blind testing.

 

[mosx]

Speaking of Amazon, I just went there to make sure I hadn't missed another one of their daily deals. I happened to see the Mamma Mia! soundtrack listed at $8.99. Out of curiousity, I went to iTunes to check out the price. $11.99. Hooray for competition. I just don't get what is keeping iTunes from having all DRM-free songs since I'm pretty sure every song on Amazon is. If it's the record companies, well, figures.

By the way, I know this is kinda dumb, but who in the crap came up with an audio format called "LAME"? It's apparent this person never even thought of a marketing class. "Look at all my LAME music!"

Yeah, sorry. Just listened to a George Carlin album on the way home. LET'S GO MICE!

LAME is an acronym. It's an MP3 encoder. It pretty much walks all over Apple's AAC encoder.

 

[Sesshi]

By the way, I know this is kinda dumb, but who in the crap came up with an audio format called "LAME"? It's apparent this person never even thought of a marketing class. "Look at all my LAME music!"

In many cases Open Source advocates don't know the meaning of deodorant, let alone marketing

LAME is an acronym. It's an MP3 encoder. It pretty much walks all over Apple's AAC encoder.

It walks over other MP3 encoders. Not necessarily current AAC encoders.