Mp3 Quality

[DJ...]

Which sentence is that? I fail to find the accurate one?

This one:

It depends on the media encoded from.

Is somewhat accurate. But is fairly obvious TBH. Taking a crappy mix tape and recording it at 192Khz will not make it CD quality, I think that is what bakwena is getting at...

 

[Nuro]

I have started to rip to 256Kbps AAC. Sounds incredible, especially on Jazz, Acoustic and Blues albums. Other than device compatibility, why still use MP3?

 

[d0b33]

I have started to rip to 256Kbps AAC. Sounds incredible, especially on Jazz, Acoustic and Blues albums. Other than device compatibility, why still use MP3?

Support, some media players still don't support AAC fully.

 

[Pyro]

CD is 16bit sized samples, sampled 44.1 thousand times per second.
That's far from being lossless.

DAT is 24bit at 96KHz and as you can imagine will still be lossy, but less lossy than CD-Audio (Red Book).

It might have lost data from the original source, but it's not a lossy compression though. If you were to take a CD source, and copy it onto a new CD source, it won't lose any additional information.

If you were, however, to take a 256Kbps MP3 and re-encode it onto a new MP3, you will lose additional quality.

> Aqua_lung:
That's exactly what device compatibility means

> bakwena:
I think you listen to 'load' music too much. Your damaged hearing can't tell the difference anymore, or the music you listen too doesn't have many complex sounds.