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Originally posted by maarten
You don't to have extraordinairy hearing to be an audiophile, my ears aren't that great but I hate bitrates <192... it totally depends what quality decoder/amp/cables/speakers you use if you are going to hear the difference between diiferent bitrates. For Axim use I find 128Kbps acceptable because the Philips earplugs just aren't up to the task of high-quality sound. For at home of in my car I prefer 224Kpbs or higher.
Nice piece of text but I disagree at some points, first of all MP3 is already a compressed format. Recompressing the MP3s to another format/bitrate the quality will get worse, if you want another format/bitrate use the original medium to create it for the best quality.
OGG gives better sound quality than WMA and MP3 at bitrates <128Kbps.
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You are absolutely correct, perhaps I should rephrase from Audiophile to "Audiophile/Picky" :)
My point is this maarten, I use my PocketPC to listen to music basically to kill time either in a noisy subway or moutain biking. The kind of quality you're referring to has no presidence in the way I use mine because there are alot of environment noise surrounding me. I apologize, when I mean "raw mp3" I meant untouched or reconverted mp3's. I suspect that many people also use their Pocketpc as a subsitute music source like I do.
If I want to listen to high quality music, I would invest my money on a minidisc or an actual mp3 portable cd player.
I know we tend to get carry away with quality rather then quantity but there are cases where quantity is more important to alot of us rather then quality. And I said before, convert the files to different formats and see which suits the individual the best, I didn't say you "have" to convert the files, my posting is to help those less unfortunates that can't spend the extra dollars to buy more memory. If we can save a little room and utilize the space on our memory cards without sacrificing much quality in the music, why not? Some people can't tell the difference between 128 bitrate and 64 bitrate, why not just use 64 bitrate and cut the size down to half? I'm not encoding my music for anyone else but me so it really doesn't matter does it?
Please don't get my wrong maarten, I would love to have the best quality there is, heck, who wouldn't... but we must sometimes wake up and smell the air pollution and face present reality... :)
Good Luck!