Audio Nerds, step up!

[WWJD]

I'm finally getting around to making my CDs portable. The latest Windows Media player 11 lets you do this easily but I don't know which FORMAT makes the most sense. I've started with MP3 320k [highgest] because both of my cars play MP3 discs. They might play Windows Media - I forget at the moment. Now I have DVD player that plays WM discs as well as a 2 gig music player thing.

So, all that said, I see different options for archiving quality music. I would like to go with the BEST quality but compressed - disc some of my discs are beat up and I discovered RIPPING them restores the playability in MP3 as well as shrinking them.

Advice? Suggestions? I plan to stick with Windows Media player as I am tired of messing with the 50 billion other optional softwares to install.

What do you guys do?

 

[shortBoarder]

Not sure regarding quality, but I'd go with MP3 if only for the reason that it's not tied to the whims and licensing schemes of Microsoft and the WMA format.

 

[Bigbody]

stick with mp3, smaller file size and good quality

 

[heavybusa]

(NVeeus04 @ Dec. 11 2006,15:25) stick with mp3, smaller file size and good quality

+1

But only if everything plays MP3s, the wifeys truck does not so I have to convet my MP3s to wave files.

 

[WWJD]

thanks. seems like MP3 is THE format to go, but I wanted some other opinions. I wonder if the MP3 at 320k is equal to LOSSLESS Windows Media? Not a big deal - I'm RARELY in a position to listen so closely to superb audio - and I'm probably going deaf already anyway the way I crank tuens in the cars!

 

[Jester0769]

stock mp3 format is kinda low on the pole for me but the high end 320 kb. is pretty nice. The best would be AAC but its a iTunes format not a windows.

stick with whe 320 and all will be good.


Josh

 

[greyrocket]

i have mine on my hard drive mp3 format at 192k sound fine in the car 37.9Gigs with 7730 songs all from my own cd's not downloaded.

 

[gat0r]

mp3 & 192 encode rate
best for sound & storage space

 

[300Busa]

mp3 all the way