Car stereo people...
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Car stereo people...
Ok i have a Pioneer cd player in my car. You guys might like or hate it, thats not what im asking about. It will play Mp3 and ACC disc. I use MP3 disc mainly because i can get about 130-140 songs on one CD. Does anyone know how many ACC format songs you can fit on a standard 800mb cd? Never used it before and i was just curious.
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Originally Posted by metafilter.com
Any two formats will be the same size at a given bitrate. The bitrate merely defines how many bits of file it plays a second!
AAC does sound better at a given bitrate than MP3, or alternatively, is smaller at a given quality level. Pretty much any lossy compression algo is better than MP3, since MP3 was the first. Anything that's worse basically doesn't get past the drawing board stage.
I still use MP3 though since it's more versatile. Everything supports MP3, discmen, dvd players, you name it.
Also note that all these formats have a lot of wiggle room: the encoder has a lot of choices to make about what information to throw out, so two MP3 encoders will probably come up with different results.
AAC does sound better at a given bitrate than MP3, or alternatively, is smaller at a given quality level. Pretty much any lossy compression algo is better than MP3, since MP3 was the first. Anything that's worse basically doesn't get past the drawing board stage.
I still use MP3 though since it's more versatile. Everything supports MP3, discmen, dvd players, you name it.
Also note that all these formats have a lot of wiggle room: the encoder has a lot of choices to make about what information to throw out, so two MP3 encoders will probably come up with different results.
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It's not going to make a big difference either way.
You'd get more on a disk by reripping the music into mp3 at a lower bitrate. Say 64bit, youll probably double or better your amount of songs per disk.
HOWEVER, more songs per disk simply means less quality per song. The more you squeeze onto the cd, the less quality that goes with each song.
You'd get more on a disk by reripping the music into mp3 at a lower bitrate. Say 64bit, youll probably double or better your amount of songs per disk.
HOWEVER, more songs per disk simply means less quality per song. The more you squeeze onto the cd, the less quality that goes with each song.