bbri06
2011-04-03 20:45:25
So if I have a song that is in in 192kb/s bitrate and then I convert it to 320kb/s, will that actually increase the quality? It doesn't really make sense to me how one could gain more quality from a lower quality file by converting it. I would think that one would only be able to convert down in quality rather than up, but maybe not.
grats
2011-04-03 20:51:09
You think correct.. you're not going to get better quality.. you'll get a louder song usually… on good decks / systems higher bit rates will play louder, which is why most have balance settings to keep everything playing at 128bits (or whatever you set it as)
HarryJames
2011-04-03 20:51:30
It's impossible to increase the audio quality :)
Imagine it like this, you can download 1 Mb a second, and the website your downloading a file from, can upload 1Mb a second.
Now you upgrade your internet to 2Mb, the server can only give you 1Mb.
The song will sound no better, and may have a larger file size, I don't think it will us the other Kb/s, but it might do.
Flight
2011-04-03 20:54:53
I think this just increases the base volume or the increase in volume when you raise the sound level. I noticed a difference between 192k and 320k songs on my stereo on my truck, but only in 'loudness'. I could be wrong be, but I think that's the biggest difference between the two.
bbri06
2011-04-03 20:55:07
That's what I was thinking, but I figured maybe there was a magical fairy in my computer or something that might make this work. Thanks for the quick responses :)
grats
2011-04-03 20:58:14
From: Flight
I think this just increases the base volume or the increase in volume when you raise the sound level. I noticed a difference between 192k and 320k songs on my stereo on my truck, but only in 'loudness'. I could be wrong be, but I think that's the biggest difference between the two.
naw, that's about the only difference there is when increasing it, decks for cars
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they'll have settings to increase the 'loudness' which just increases the bits etc
after too much the song sounds like shit btw
any_one
2011-04-04 03:58:25
In fact, re-encoding any lossy compression scheme (such as mp3, any video you will probably ever play) will result in a loss of quality, regardless of the bitrate used. So just don't do it :)
doublex8
2011-04-06 10:25:36
From: any_one
In fact, re-encoding any lossy compression scheme (such as mp3, any video you will probably ever play) will result in a loss of quality, regardless of the bitrate used. So just don't do it :)
This, unless you want to get the FLAC file and re-encode it once to .mp3, that is what I do and it is probably the best quality you can get from .mp3 imo