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jerbl

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Encoding with Itunes

I have the new version of Itunes (7.0) and I absolutely love the cover art feature.  It is quite awesome to have a use for those cover arts, and even not have to go look for them on Amazon or DeseretBook depending on where and what they are.  I have come to the conclusion that I should stick with MP3 and up till recently I thought very highly of Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding on Maximum Quality.  But now I am not so sure.  I have reencoded some music in a flat rate of 192 kbps (listed as high quality in itunes) and I have actually noted a difference.  Not only in file size (a tad smaller it would appear) but better overall quality.  This leads me to believe that the software that determines what parts of a song need the most bits (what VBR does) doesn't work quite as well as it should.  Does anybody think differently?

Seraphim Moonshadow

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Re: Encoding with Itunes

You know, I've been too lazy to download the newer version.

I would totally agree with you there.

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