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Question

Creating Music Files

Sep 9, 2011 9:53PM PDT

I already have all the music I want to hear, on vinyl, tape and CD. So I've been recording them into my PC as wav files with Wavepad and Audacity, then converting them to MP3.
I'm just wondering what file quality/size is most commonly used on MP3 players?

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Never seen such in a study.
Sep 10, 2011 6:13AM PDT

But do you remember your statistics classes? How accurate is your answer with 2 answers? How accurate with 5 answers?

How accurate must the answer be?
Bob

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Try this.
Sep 10, 2011 8:55AM PDT

It appears you want an answer, ANY answer.

Try these.

1. Go get CDEX, install the MP3 encoder and look at it's default rate.
2. Look over 2 to 10 random MP3's in your collection and see which rate shows up the most.

You'll figure it out.

And yes I removed that post.
Bob