Now that I'm on spring break (for just one lousy week, though), I'm finally taking the time to sit down and re-encode *all* of my music CDs as 128 kbps AAC files.
I'm quite glad I have a relatively small music library -- just a couple dozen CDs, mostly movie soundtracks.
And yes, I do know it's a lossy formate and 128 kbps isn't that high a bitrate...after nearly three hours of testing, I concluded that I flat-out can't hear any difference between 128 kbps AAC and higher-bitrate AAC and MP3 files unless they're played side-by-side, and even then it's not big enough to really justify the higher bitrate.
I'm quite glad I have a relatively small music library -- just a couple dozen CDs, mostly movie soundtracks.
And yes, I do know it's a lossy formate and 128 kbps isn't that high a bitrate...after nearly three hours of testing, I concluded that I flat-out can't hear any difference between 128 kbps AAC and higher-bitrate AAC and MP3 files unless they're played side-by-side, and even then it's not big enough to really justify the higher bitrate.
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