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What's the bitrate on your phone?

14 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/whats-the-bitrate-on-your-phone.70729/

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Hitboxx Original post #1
Oct 15, 2007 at 5:52 PM
Guys,

Generally, what's the bitrate of songs on your phone? Most of them are usually 128 on mine. Anyone going higher than that? Of course there are a few 160,192, here and there but mostly 128.

And also I'm thinking of converting them to ogg, as you may know, ogg is a very superior format to mp3 giving a better quality at half the filesize.

As my mmc is already cramped up with some 15 movies, some 50 games, 45 apps and 100 songs (the ones I always like to listen), doing so I might be able to push in some more songs there.
deathvirus_me
Oct 15, 2007 at 6:29 PM
I use 100% VBR :D ... and i seriously never use OGG ...
Kiran.dks
Oct 15, 2007 at 6:44 PM
128Kbps is low for me. I prefer 192kbps and above.
max_demon
Oct 15, 2007 at 6:54 PM
320kbps , i have only two albums of 200 MB :D on my 1 GB
alsiladka
Oct 15, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Around 56 - 64 kbps MP4 songs (eAAC). I usually listen to my songs on the headphones, and i hate loud music, i like my music to be in the background in my ears!

I encode my songs to MP4 from MP3 and WMA using Easy CD-DA, takes around 2 MB per song. Right now, i have around 400 songs but still a GB free, so take another 400 songs more, if i find them worth my liking ;)
gxsaurav
Oct 15, 2007 at 7:04 PM
64 kbps MP4 AAC
shady_inc
Oct 15, 2007 at 8:35 PM
96 kbps in some songs and 128 kbps in some others.Though any new songs I add are in ogg format.Seriously,ogg sounds way better than mp3,both encoded at same bitrate.Only sore point is lack of ID3 tags.:(
R
Oct 15, 2007 at 10:54 PM
m4a encoded using xillisoft video converter VBR around 90kbps for a song avg. i have 530 songs in 1.3GB
xbonez
xbonez #9
Oct 15, 2007 at 11:24 PM
generally 192kbps works well for me
infra_red_dude
Oct 15, 2007 at 11:34 PM
96kbps AAC in M4A container.
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Hitboxx #11
Oct 16, 2007 at 11:08 AM
O me gawd, ogg absolutely rocks!!!:D What a quality for a paltry filesize, did it at ~64kbps VBR, files under 2mb, simply amazing!
shady_inc said:
96 kbps in some songs and 128 kbps in some others.Though any new songs I add are in ogg format.Seriously,ogg sounds way better than mp3,both encoded at same bitrate.Only sore point is lack of ID3 tags.:(
Wrong, ogg does have and support ID3 tags, have it on my PC as well as phone. All my oggs retained the tags after conversion. piece-of-cake:)
rockthegod
Oct 16, 2007 at 11:18 AM
128 Kbps AAC-LC m4a/96 Kbps WMA... though for songs which I tend to hear most... its 192 KBps mp3.... :)
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krazyfrog #13
Oct 16, 2007 at 12:42 PM
Mostly 128-192Kbps MP3s.
casanova
casanova #14
Oct 16, 2007 at 5:40 PM
128Kbps for me as well