When does iTunes MP3 = Lame Mp3
Reply #6 – 2004-11-12 20:25:11
For your girlfriend I would recommend: - 128 AAC or - 160 MP3 VBR at highest quality setting I did some testing of iTunes 4.6 comparings different bitrates between ACC vs. MP3 VBR vs. LAME. In general I had a hard time telling the samples apart on an ABC/HR test I did on the iPod, except for samples made with iTunes MP3 VBR with 112/128 kbps as lowest bitrate."128" listening tests compiled results: A=iTunes 4.2 m4p 128 B=iTunes 4.6 aac 128 C=iTunes 4.6 aac 160 D=iTunes 4.6 mp3 112 vbr E=iTunes 4.6 mp3 128 vbr lame 3.96 mp3 128 v5=F A B C D E F ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BigYellow - 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 Echo 3.4 5.0 4.2 3.0 4.6 4.6 Gone - 4.8 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 Hungarian - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 ItCouldBeSweet - 5.0 5.0 4.8 4.8 4.8 Kraftwerk - 4.9 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 OrdinaryWorld - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.5 RedHouse - 5.0 5.0 4.5 4.8 4.9 Rosemary - 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 5.0 School 5.0 4.5 4.7 4.8 4.8 4.8 Stairway - 4.6 5.0 5.0 3.8 5.0 Waiting - 5.0 5.0 4.5 4.8 5.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVERAGE 4.20 4.89 4.91 4.71 4.79 4.88 =============================================================================== Prepared 2004-08-15 21:31 with iPod-ABX v0.4 Performed 2004-07-27 on iPod with Sennheiser PXC-250 head phones However that is my personal results and if you want to do a listening test, you might get a different result.iPod-ABX