[rescue] vinyl - wav - cd

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 30 20:50:33 CDT 2003


--- "Patrick Giagnocavo +1.717.201.3366" <patrick at zill.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:16:56PM -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > Wait, I'm confused - CDs have 44.1K 16 bit samples per stereo
> > channel, so that is 88.2K * 16 Bits, or 176.4K Bytes/second,
> > right? So what is the benefit of a 256K MP3?
> 
> the 256K MP3 is 256kbits/second vs. 1411kbits/second for the
> CD (assuming your calculations are right .

Oh, I get it - thanks...


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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