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hahah thats what i said when i had 300 gigs free.. now i got 10 gigs left, time to save money for another hd :D

Hey! With all the money you are saving by infringing on the song's copyrights (and not buying hte albums), you should be able to afford TONS of hard drive space already! :laugh:

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is AAC format better than mp3? how?

Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) is an mp4 and mp3 is obviously mp3. AAC encoding (quality) is much better than mp3's by far so you get higher quality songs that are smaller in size comparativly than in an mp3.

Check out this page or this Apple page for more info on aac.

Here is an excerpt from the Apple page:

  • Improved compression provides higher-quality results with smaller file sizes
  • Support for multichannel audio, providing up to 48 full frequency channels
  • Higher resolution audio, yielding sampling rates up to 96 kHz
  • Improved decoding efficiency, requiring less processing power for decode

In numerous comparison tests, AAC comes out on top. Check out these impressive results:

  • AAC compressed audio at 128 kbps (stereo) has been judged by expert listeners to be ?indistinguishable? from the original uncompressed audio source.*
  • AAC compressed audio at 96 kbps generally exceeded the quality of MP3 compressed audio at 128 kbps. AAC at 128 kbps provides significantly superior performance than does MP3 at 128 kbps.*
  • AAC was the only Internet audio codec evaluated in the range ?Excellent? at 64 kbps for all of the audio items tested in EBU listening tests.*

* Information provided by Dolby Labs.

And from my own personal hearing tests, aac really does sound much better than mp3 even at lower quality.

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i have 4145 Mp3s which i think is just under 20gb 90% of the songs are 192kbps none are under 128kbps with an audigy 2 on digital inspires rubbish mp3s really do show on them.

I use mp3s cause my Jukebox Zen NX supports wma, mp3, and wav lol i don't think i will have them as Wav :D and wma ...don't even go there

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What's wrong with WMA? You're just another person who hates WMA for the sake of hating WMA.

Doesn't WMA support restrictions on playback?

MP3s cannot be restricted. It is not in their encoding scheme.... Well, at least not yet.. :blink: Things change.

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Doesn't WMA support restrictions on playback?

MP3s cannot be restricted.  It is not in their encoding scheme....  Well, at least not yet.. :blink:  Things change.

Not unless you enable it. Support - not feature.

It can be written into the XML at the start of every WMA - where you can put so much metadata it's not funny!

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Advanced Audio Codec (AAC) is an mp4 and mp3 is obviously mp3.? AAC encoding (quality) is much better than mp3's by far so you get higher quality songs that are smaller in size comparativly than in an mp3.

Check out this page or this Apple page for more info on aac.

Here is an excerpt from the Apple page:

  • Improved compression provides higher-quality results with smaller file sizes
  • Support for multichannel audio, providing up to 48 full frequency channels
  • Higher resolution audio, yielding sampling rates up to 96 kHz
  • Improved decoding efficiency, requiring less processing power for decode

In numerous comparison tests, AAC comes out on top. Check out these impressive results:

  • AAC compressed audio at 128 kbps (stereo) has been judged by expert listeners to be ?indistinguishable? from the original uncompressed audio source.*
  • AAC compressed audio at 96 kbps generally exceeded the quality of MP3 compressed audio at 128 kbps. AAC at 128 kbps provides significantly superior performance than does MP3 at 128 kbps.*
  • AAC was the only Internet audio codec evaluated in the range ?Excellent? at 64 kbps for all of the audio items tested in EBU listening tests.*

* Information provided by Dolby Labs.

And from my own personal hearing tests, aac really does sound much better than mp3 even at lower quality.

and I notice that aac directs the bass properly unlike mp3 which just spits it ne where it can

That 20GB iPod must seem pretty roomy:happy:; :happy: 

Yup its roomy alright

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i have nearly 6000 songs, most being mp3, some are wma and a few in real audio taking up in total nearly 40gb :D

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Currently 18,337 songs on a 120 gig hard drive at work on a computer whose sole purpose is to play music randomly for us there. Everyone has brought in their CDs to be ripped. We rip to Ogg Vorbis at .3 quality. Great stuff. =)

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around 6500, i'll post the size when i get home. i have atleast 250 albums ripped at 192kb (it's great when your GF works at a second-hand music shop :))

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