#Cd audio quality 320kbps#

WAV is actually a bitstream encoding container used to typicly store LPCM (a format under PCM) This is evident in CDs that all store information in a sample rate and resolution of 44100Hz and 16bit. A CD uses PCM a method of information storage that is uncompressed, note that greater sample rate and resolution requires extensively more space to store it. Aditionally the upper limit sample rate and resoloution of FLAC is 655,350 Hz and 32 bits. This means a program reading a FLAC will be able to uncompress without any information loss. Hello, I think this may answer your question once and for all.ДЇLAC is a lossless format, designed to sore audio indormation that involves algorithms to reduce storage space.

#Cd audio quality 320kbps#

If you want to get the best quality MP3s from your CDs, you should rip them at 320kbps - the file sizes will still be drastically smaller than lossless files, so you'll be able to fit much more music on your mp3 player. MP3 files are very high quality for the size of the files and perfectly practical when you are on-the-go. Now, if you are listening to music through entry-level earphones or small computer speakers you probably won't be able to tell the difference either way. A FLAC rip of the file on the CD would be pretty near the 50 megabytes on the CD, because it loses no data, is not compressed, hence 'lossless.' MP3 files DO lose data, they ARE compressed, they are 'lossy.' That means there is 10x more data on the CD file. Think of it this way: if you put a CD into your computer and look at the individual song files, you'll find that a 4 minute song will be about 50 megabytes the same song with a 128kbps bit rate would be about 5 megabytes. Some ripping software will claim that 128kbps is 'CD Quality' (maybe that is where you are getting this idea from?), but it most certainly is not.