[X4U] Which format for Music?

[Jim Warthman]

I looked at one song that's 3 min. 57 sec. long  (not statistically valid!),
and it takes the following space with various encodings:

   21 MB     ALE
   9.2 MB    AAC @ 320 kbps
   6.4 MB    AAC @ 224 kbps
   4.6 MB   AAC @ 160 kbps

You can do the arithmetic.

(Pink Floyd's Speak to Me/Breathe, if anyone cares.  :-)

Enjoy!

-- Jim


On 2005-08-14 9:16 AM, "Eddie Hargreaves" <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 8/14/05 7:33 AM, DZ-Jay <dz at caribe.net> wrote:
> 
>> An AIFF file takes roughly 1MB of disk space for each minute of audio
> 
> I think it takes much more than that. By that formula, a 4-minute song
> ripped in AIFF format would be 4MB in size. I think it would actually be in
> the hundreds of MBs.
> 
> The 1 minute to 1MB ratio is actually more applicable to MP3 encoding.