> > It's like saying .WAV is better than .MP3.  Well yeah, but 
> MP3 takes 
> > 1/10th the space and sounds the same.
> 
> Well, it depends on many things, it could sound good, but 
> many people compresses to 128kbps where the distortion is too 
> huge to not to notice.
> Also some compression tool cuts off the original song at 
> 16kHz - to radio quality. 


Dunno where you pirate your music from...

A 128k is about a meg a minute in size, i.e. a 4 minute file is about 4mb.
It's good enough for most cases of good enough.

Ripping with VBR at 320k produces a file that's more-or-less that size
(usually a bit bigger) but much high quality.  You won't pick that in a
blind CD vs MP3 test.  (Straight 320k is twice that size.)

Tony

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