What happened to bitrate info for mp3's?

Yes, you are wasting your time, and yes, obviouslly not realizing what is being asked, and to your defence, they really dont make their case clear. If you were a Dj using digital files, you like to see the quality of a soundfile, without using itunes or any 3d party software. I do miss the bitrate info in the finder. It has nothing to do with playlists, this issue is not closed, the only thing that should be closed is your comments. Can we please bring back the bitrate info back in finder, please!

Please excuse me asking, why is the bitrate useful information?

The "lossless" converters are dynamic with ever-changing bitrates, and the ones with fixed rates all sound different from each other. Sorry, but based on that the bitrate is little to not relevant for me personally...

Why Apple does one thing and not another, we here can only speculate.

Especially for large music collections iTunes should be of great help: add the "Bitrate" column to the view and compare at a glance.

Just like everyone or every other organization, Apple can't make everyone happy. You always have the option of going back to a previous OS X version which is to your gusto.

Maybe you got me wrong: in iTunes' list view you can add a column for bitrate, so then you see it ALL the time for ALL the songs. And iTunes will even help you finding duplicates......

Really not sure what you want to talk about: a solution to your bitrate "problem", or just a bit of general raving?

I'm probably wasting my time here, but you must not allow iTunes to take over management of your music collection, everything can stay where it is. I just don't get how juggling terabytes of tracks - how many thousands? - is easier with the Finder, no matter if it shows bitrate or not. How do you replace the functionality of playlists in Finder, for example?

Whatever, I consider the case closed. Thanks & good luck.

Alansky, I am with you on this. I noticed that you can no longer see the bitrate info in finder since I upgraded to Mountain Lion (one of many things I don't like about it). It was a very useful little feature for a number of reasons. For example: if you do a search for a track which returns duplicates and you want to pick the best version, etc.

I redcently found a pluggin called Iced Audio (http://www.icedaudio.com) which could help you out in managing your music library. I haven't installed it myself yet as it seemed a little like overkill. Just thought I'd share it with you as it does seem to have some great features.

Cheers

J

I don't know how to display the bitrate in the Finder, but Spotlight can search on the bitrate. For example, you can do a Spotlight search for audiobitrate:<256 to find all your files that have an audio bitrate less than 256kbps.

Hi,

What you can do is enter the bit rates to the comments. It'll show up in the info window as a comment. Something like AppleScript could do this.

gl,

Extremely frustrating...I too would like it back. Apple seem insistant on dumbing down their products, forgeting what made them popular in the first place. iTunes should be looking forward towards higher quality music as MP3's are ruining music and the appreciation of. Removing the bitrate conveniently hides this. Converting files is important for allot of users i.e. AIF files from their own apps like garage band and logic and this just doesnt fit in with that, and makes it very slow to convert files and remove duplicate AIF files.

I found this app and tutorial, it takes an extra step but it gets the job done:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6XygNwb8N4

And to people like LousyFool who can't just answer a question without questioning it, you're as much of a waste of time as the people who only comment with "same problem here", just stop commenting in forums if you can't lend a hand.