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I have a question.

How exactly do I rip music in VBR? I use Goldwave for my ripping needs and it always rips it at 128CBR. Do I need a better ripping program or is there some sort of settings I need to change on Goldwave?

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Whoops, I should have reworded that better. I meant, rip/record music from games. Whenever I rip music from games with Goldwave, it comes out in 128. How do I record music in VBR?

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Okay, I've got another question.

Why do some people rip CDs in 320 CBR? Is it better than Variable Bi-rate or is there some sort of advantage? It also takes up so much space that I can't see why they'd rip it like that. This happened on an Inuyahsa Theme collection album I downloaded. (They ripped it in 320 CBR. It was a Vocal Heavy album).

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I thought so.

The last question on my mind is about Enhanced CDs. While searching through soundtracks. I noticed on Amazon.com that some CDs have [Enhanced] on their description. So, what do they really do differently for enhanced CDs? Do they buff something out or increase pitches or something?

What would be the big differences from Enhanced CDs and non-enhanced?

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Okay, I've been having some confusion about VBR.

I've been cruising on the internet for soundtracks and I find that I see some albums that say something like 224kbps VBR. Is that possible? I thought VBR meant variable Kbps. Do people on the internet just make a mistake about VBR or something?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Okay, to continue my question off

So, when you convert an a file format to another. Do you lose quality or anything?

Like Converting a WAV file to an Mp3 file.

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Originally Posted by ArrowHead

320kbps is technically better quality than VBR, for the very simple reason that the bitrate is nailed as high as it can possibly go.

So then, is there any area of quaility or anything that is a disadvantage of having it in VBR? Is there any reason to have an album in VBR as opposed to 320kbps? (Besides the massive amount of size)

Basically I'm asking, VBR vs. 320kbps?

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So far I've heard that 320kbps doesn't have as good 'highs' and 'lows' as VBR does.

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So, wouldn't having a 320 CBR for a less complex song hurt it's quality?

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Thanks for all of the help guys. I'm sorry for pestering you all so much will all of my questions but I've had some of these questions for a while. :juggler:

I'm glad you guys were nice enough help me.

I'm using a Batch Processor on Goldwave to take all of my albums and songs in CBR and convert them to VBR. What I'm wondering though is, how is it possible to actually convert a song from CBR to VBR? I though Birate is permanent and that no program can change it when it's ripped in CBR.

Another question is, would it have the same quality as directly ripping a song from the actually CD in VBR?

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Would anyone know a good program for converting file formats? I have to convert an album in .ogg format to Mp3 format and I'd like to know a good program that would do it well without lossing too much (or any, if possible) quality?

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I'm ashamed to say I actually missed that when skimming through.

Oh Well, thanks for the info guys.

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.gsf files are a pain. Is there a certain reason why GBA rips are ripped in that format over mp3? Is it better quality?

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What is the advantage of having a playlist? Does it primarily making playing the mp3's faster? How does it affect mp3 players (like what would be the difference of playing in album without a playlist and one with one).

I was speaking idiomatically.