Ripping Music

[Hammie]

In the easiest of terms, the higher the bitrate, the more accurate the music will be.

Since digital cannot be a perfect curve, you need to sample at higher bitrates. a 128kbps MP3 will be sampled less than a 320kbps MP3.

The other thing is compression algorithms. MP3 has one of the highest compression factors and results in some of the worst sounding music files. However, as you mentioned many car stereos, MP3 "boom" boxes, or MP3 player headphones, cannot show the differences between these files very well. You need a system that can show the differences.

Not sure if this helped or not. I thought there was a sticky somewhere but I could not locate it.