ABCs of Digital Music – Bitrate
64k, 96k, 128, 256k. What do they all mean? It’s simple really: the bigger the number, the higher the quality. But there is a catch: the higher the number, the larger the file size.
Just like an internet connection is rated, a music file is rated at kilobits per second, not kilobytes per second. The more kilobits you have available, the more data you can fit in the audio file. The more data you can fit in an audio file, the better sounding the song will be. Told you it’s simple.
Now then, how do you know which data rating you should …read more
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