From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Glenn Meadows"
 wrote:
>We had people who had problems with VBR files, so for assured playback
>everywhere, we settled on CBR at max bitrate.  We upload them to a special
>web area, and then send the links to the files to radio stations to download
>and play.  I'd prefer to send them a CD, and let them encode at whatever
>rate they want to use.  I'd rather to that, than have them transcode.

At least if they start with 320Kbps the transcoding effects will be
minimised. I shudder whenever I hear someone transcoding, say, 128Kbps MP3
to AAC or WMA.

(To the onlookers, what we're talking about is the quality loss inherent
with converting one lossy format into another lossy format. I'm sure most
of you have seen the results of copying one VHS tape to another a couple of
times - the picture quality drops off rapidly. Something similar happens
when you convert lossy music.)

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