What mp3 on your computer has the highest bit-rate?

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And conversely the lowest?

"Hot Butter" by Popcorn - 320kbps
"The Beat Generation" by Bob McFadden and Dor - 64kbps

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i have some 24kps trax from mego, they actually sound okay!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"You Do Something to Me" by Ella Fitzgerald - 320kbps
Episode 155 of This American Life with Ira Glass - 16kbps

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 20 November 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls (Fila Brasilia mix) - 602kbps
Ray Charles - Rainy Night in Georgia - 96kbps

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

"Move to Trash" and "Drag to Trash," both 1411 kbps
But seriously, as for real songs I have 21 at 320 kbps, including:

"There She Goes," The Las
"Secretariat," The Reivers
"Remember," The Raveonettes
"Only Shallow," MBV
"Night Lights," Nat King Cole
"Maggie's Farm," Bob Dylan (live at Newport '65)
"Los Angeles," X

Lowest bit rates:
"The Grinch," Boris Karloff (56)
"Leaping Lesbians," Sue Fink and Joelyn Grippo (64)
"Banana Splits Song (Tra La La)" (96)

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Highest : Superpinkymandy CD -beth orton (320)
Lowest : Sweaty Walls - All Seeing I (32)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 November 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I have 2 Tony Hancock mp3 that are encoded at 32kbs VBR, and drop to 1 to 2 kbs every so foten. They sound great, except for the laughter, which sounds like it was recorded on a wax cylinder.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Orange Juice's "Love Sick" at 682kbps

"Haan Maine Bhi" from Mubarak Mubarak soundtrack at 24kbps

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Highest: Mew - Comforting Sounds (original mix), 320kbps and weighing in at 21Mb.
Lowest: A live version of Sophie Ellis Bextor doing "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie" which is 32 and doesn't sound too bad at all.

As regards economy of downloading, I've probably listened to the latter almost as much as the former.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Highest: Primitives - Do the Ostrich - 224 (Suprising, because it has the worst sound of any)
Lowest: Wilson - Istanbul Connection - 64

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

highest: luomo - the present lover 320kbps/21.2MB
lowest: haven't a clue, probably something at 96kbps

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

What software produces MP3s with higher bitrates than 320k? And why?

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 November 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah. Isn't 1411kbps, like, an uncompressed WAV file?

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike - I very much doubt my 600+ kbps files are actually at that speed - but somehow they're fooling my Windows Media Player into presenting them as such. "Lovesick"'s monstrous bitrate is a misreading by the software.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, right - WMP has a tendency to do that.

To answer the question: 0 and 0. I'm at work! What would I be doing with MP3s on my computer? Madness!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

YER ALL BUSTED!!!!!!!!

― RIAA (Dan Perry), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

so...what's the advantage of a variable bit rate?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 20 November 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

VBR = only codes at the rate the music requires moment-to-moment, so can drop very low if there's little complex material (or it's very low volume) and rise to some predefined ceiling if needed. Hence a VBR file with a max bitrate of 160k will take up less space than a CBR file of 160k but should sound just as good.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

VBR is really good for those final tracks with the 5 minutes' silence and then the hidden track.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

but CD burning packages don't like 'em.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Meh. I often WAVify by habit before I burn anyway. Actually, can't remember having any trouble with variable ones when burning straight from Mp3.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, VBR encoding = necessarily slower than CBR due to extra step of analysis. I tend to favour a VBR rating of 70 or 80 in Cool Edit (average bitrate = 115-165k or 135-195k, I think). Some software doesn't like VBR files as has been mentioned.

VBR great for long classical pieces with near-silent sections.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 20 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Guess Things Happen That Way -- Bob Dylan / Johnny Cash -- 96kbs

Girls At The Laundromat -- G Love - Live at the Haunt -- 320kbs

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 20 November 2003 18:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Pillows' White Ash - 256
L'Academie des 9 theme song - 8

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 20 November 2003 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Highest = Aphex Twin's "Avril 14th" (320)
Lowest = Within Temptation's "Ice Queen" (56)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 21 November 2003 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I have various 320 bit rate tracks by Cameo, Morning Dew, Roy Budd, Herbie Mann + Claudine Longet.

But I only mention this to point out that my lowest bit rate track at 24 bits is an unknown, lo-fi piece entitled "Popcorn" (not Hot Butter's) which includes a loop of the refrain "It's good to eat!"

This brings the thread full circle and no-one else should post.

― musicmope (musicmope), Friday, 21 November 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

All the tracks I rip off of CD are encoded at 320kbps AAC, used to be 320kbps MP3.

Lowest - Kelly Slusher - "55 Dollars" - which I think I downloaded from her website at ILM's suggestion.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead - Climbing Up the Walls (Fila Brasilia mix) - 602kbps

iTunes tells me this is a 192VBR. Theory about Windows Media is correct.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Theres a small glitch in Windows Explorer when it tries to figure out the bitrate on a VBR mp3...sometimes it takes the bitrate from the left channel and the birate from the right channel and adds them together. Don't ask me why.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 21 November 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Why, Lord Custos, WHY??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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