[X4U] Rip It Up - iTunes Import Settings Survey

[Eddie Hargreaves]

On 5/12/05 11:09 PM, Kirk McElhearn <kirklists at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> On May 13, 2005, at 7:49 AM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:
> 
>> Originally I used MP3 at 128, since I had a 6GB HD. After bumping  that up to
>> 40GB, I changed to MP3 at 160, which was the standard Apple used to
>> approximate how many songs would fit on an iPod.
> 
> Nope. Apple's calculations are based on a 4-minute song, encoded at
> 128 kbps. (The format doesn't matter.)

Sorry, my mistake. When they set the iTMS at 128kbps AAC, they noted that it
had the sound quality of 160kbps MP3. That's why I switched my encoding
method: same sound quality at lower file size. Instead of 2,000 tracks on my
10GB iPod, I was getting 2100-2200.

Eddie Hargreaves