Hi Jason (of 1:229/658),
On Wed, 18 Jun 03 at 13:16 o'clock, you wrote me:

 JV> Nope..  I am 100 percent right...  I have used, and still use
 JV> professional encoding software..  When you encode an MP3 from a WAV 
 JV> file, the default it 128kbps..  That is CD Quality..  1 megabyte per minute,
 JV>  a WAV file, which is the standard found on regular audio CD's is 10 meg per 
 JV> minute.

128kbps is NOT cd-quality.  HOWEVER... some rip programs will say "CD
Quality (128kbps)", but that is MISLEADING.   

128kbps is only approximately one tenth of the original sound content
compared to a standard sound file playing from an actual audio CD, and you
even know that yourself.  

If you play a standard audio CD, you will note that the sound file will
display at 1411kbps - and THAT is CD Quality!  ;)

That is why 128kbps .MP3 versions of audio rips became popular over the
net; the files were only 1 tenth the size of an "original" .WAV
extraction from an original audio CD.   And being only only 1 tenth of an
unadulterated sound file, 128kbps is nowhere near "cd quality".


...August

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