crappy mp3 quality
hooked up an old 7500av (100mhz PPC) to my stereo, transferred a bunch of mp3s to it and played them. they sold like poo...really crappy highs, etc. they are encoded @ 160kbps which in my experience has been pretty good quality...maybe it is because i am using much nice speakers than i am accustomed to using for mp3s? so the main question is: does a slower processor (100mhz ppc in this case) make mp3s sound worse. Furthermore, will a bizarre mp3 program (i am using macast 1.0 under os 8.6) reduce mp3 quality. Just wondering before i start encoding everyting at 192+
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<strong>hooked up an old 7500av (100mhz PPC) to my stereo, transferred a bunch of mp3s to it and played them. they sold like poo...really crappy highs, etc.</strong><hr></blockquote>
well mp3 is a compression and therefor takes something away from the original to reduce file-size.
(i think mostly hights)
[quote]they are encoded @ 160kbps which in my experience has been pretty good quality...maybe it is because i am using much nice speakers than i am accustomed to using for mp3s?<hr></blockquote>
160 kbit/s is ok but not really good quality.
try higher sample rate.
i use 190 kbit/s at least
(itunes goes up to 320 kbit/s)
[quote]so the main question is: does a slower processor (100mhz ppc in this case) make mp3s sound worse. Furthermore, will a bizarre mp3 program (i am using macast 1.0 under os 8.6) reduce mp3 quality. Just wondering before i start encoding everyting at 192+<hr></blockquote>
i don't think that cpu speed or software has anything to do with mp3 quality. (100 mhz isn't that slow)
i guess you just didn't hear the quality loss on your minor speekers.