I've converted all my iTunes Library to MP3 - 64kbps format. I am very pleased with the quality but was wondering if I go any lower will it sound much worse?
I've got nearly 2,000 songs on my iPod and growing. That's why I've converted my songs to such a low bitrate.
Thanks in advance 🙂
Windows 7
For normal music listening, most people view 128 as the lower bound for acceptable audio. This of course will depend on your ears, your equipment, and the noise level of your surroundings.
For spoken word recordings, 64 or 48 would be fine.
Do not get into the trap of butchering your music to fit your current iPod. Use the iPod ability to "sync selected playlists" to put a selection that will fit on the iPod.
It depends what genre are you listening !!! Try listening classical works of that quality and you will hear nothing!
Please take advice of ed2345 :
"Do not get into the trap of butchering your music to fit your current iPod."
If you realy enjoy in music do not use such low bitrates. Sorry, but for me 64kbps is s**t !
Every down-conversion results in loss of quality and up-conversion can't bring lost quality back.
Only conversion that result in no loss of quality is conversion between lossless file formats (Wav, Flac, ALAC, ...).
So if you have big hard drive i would recomend that you always rip your music in loseless formats for archive, and then convert to aac or mp3 for use with ipod!
If I convert back upwards (higher bitrate) will I gain quality? I have converted my music many times
Paul, Converting back up will expand the file size, but does not restore the quality. The "sonic information" that was lost in converting to a low bitrate cannot be regained.
Is lower than 64 kbps MP3 format any good?
