Not All Players Are Created Equal
Not all entries are the same. There are some important factors to consider when creating an MP3 recording of or conversion to other formats. MP3 (Mpeg layer 3) was invented to reduce the file size of recorded music or sound with minimal loss of quality.
Basically it’s all about compressing files, delete some data, inaudible and encode duplicate data. A good example of a comparison of one minute Wave file recording with high quality can take up to 10 Megs of space.When converting to MP3 file takes only about a 1 meg. This is a huge improvement over the file size, but there are some data loss.
There are two basic ways to compress files.Lossless and Lossable. lossless as zip-file, which will compress the original and then uncompress an exact match. Lossable compression (used in MP3 format) means that it’s pretty close to the original, but not a perfect match.
MP3 files can be encoded at different bitrates, which is measured in Kbps (kilobits per second). You can burn files to MP3 at 128 Kbit/s (which is OK), or 160 Kbps for high-quality playback and 193 Kbps for a very good quality on most systems. Using the best possible source you can make too much difference in the final result.
For those who have very high stereo playback system may take up 193 Kbps bitrate. This increases the amount of data and thus can increase the amount of detailed sound during playback. Of course a lot of people with less than perfect hearing will never notice the difference.And the method used to playback recordings will also affect the quality of the original.
If you rip A CD recording a song to a wave file, and then convert to MP3; some data will be lost. If you are recording directly from a CD, since there is more data, the quality of the MP3 should be better.The more data to be of better quality or play it can get very technical, but there are several key factors to consider is the effect of quality of most.
MP3 encoders use several methods of compression of data files:
Perceptual coding and data Compression. Perceptual encoding algorithms to determine sounds below the minimum human hearing, usually from 2 kHz to 5 kHz and delete the data using a method psihoakusticeskim. Encoders that duplicates the human ear to ascertain what sounds louder sounds are hidden and are not required for storage.
There are currently three major compression methods which are not related to audio, but the method used for the storage of these methods to combine common elements and removes all duplicate data is much more technical, but that’s the gist of it.
MP3 quality may not be correctly recorded file wave because most compression and some data are deleted in the process but make music files smaller and lighter for downloading from the Internet was invented in MP3 format: high quality music files come from an original CD or an uncompressed WAV or AIFF/FLAC/Apple Lossless compressed downloads.
If you want portability and smaller file size, MP3 files will fill the Bill in order to get the best quality, use a bitrate of 192 kpbs. If you absolutely need better recording quality to an uncompressed file formats.