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320kbs - any more quality to come?

Is MP3 at 320kbs now as good as this format will ever get, or will developers be able to squeeze more quality out of it eventually?

While I've nothing against Flac/Ogg etc I'm archiving my CDs as 320kbs so I can pull folders of music from my external hard drive onto my (MP3 only) portable (20gb) player without the bother of recoding it.

V0 sounds great through the portable but I'm working on the theory that I'll be playing music from my hard drive through my main hi-fi in a couple of years - and I don't want to then feel I have to then upgrade everything from V0 to b320.

320kbs - any more quality to come?

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Is MP3 at 320kbs now as good as this format will ever get, or will developers be able to squeeze more quality out of it eventually?

While I've nothing against Flac/Ogg etc I'm archiving my CDs as 320kbs so I can pull folders of music from my external hard drive onto my (MP3 only) portable (20gb) player without the bother of recoding it.

V0 sounds great through the portable but I'm working on the theory that I'll be playing music from my hard drive through my main hi-fi in a couple of years - and I don't want to then feel I have to then upgrade everything from V0 to b320.
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There's two things you may wish to take into account here....above 320kbps you're stepping into lossless territory, so go lossless and drop mp3 (although the issue here is compatability..but it would be if the mp3 compression/decompression algorithm was changed anyway.)  I'm sure more players will support lossless in the future.

Another thing is storage isn't going to be a problem (on players and computers) so compression will become pretty much unecessary except for streaming purposes etc.  I remember dos/windows came with something called "drivespace", now no one (sweeping statement, so i'll say, no one I know) compresses their HD's anymore.  You are talking about years from now, so who really knows.  All i've said is pure speculation and probably in breach of HA's "terms and conditions" or whatever.

320kbs - any more quality to come?

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>>>>>>>>>>>>Another thing is storage isn't going to be a problem (on players and computers) so compression will become pretty much unecessary except for streaming purposes etc.  I remember dos/windows came with something called "drivespace", now no one (sweeping statement, so i'll say, no one I know) compresses their HD's anymore.  You are talking about years from now, so who really knows.  All i've said is pure speculation and probably in breach of HA's "terms and conditions" or whatever.<<<<<<<<<<<


Oh yes, I remember compressed HDs. Caused a lot of headaches, I seem to remember.

Mind you I remember when my ex-father in law first got a computer with a hard drive - very impressed we were, until we found out that Windows more or less filled the 20mb (yes, 20mb), leaving no room to do anything much at all. My first computer (an Amstrad, UK trivia fans) had two 3.5inch floppy drives because the word processing program I used was said to run better from two!