[LMB] MP3 advice

[Mark Allums]

Paula Lieberman wrote:
>> A standard audio CD capacity is about 650M.  80 minute CDs are about
>> 700M.  In uncompressed music.  If you convert the music to MP3's it will
> 
> CDs tend to have 44.1 kilosample per second, 16 bits per sample, stereo 
> digital audio.  DAT used 48 kilosamples per second, and DVD audio is suppose 
> to be something like 5.1 channels of 24 bit per sample digital audio at I 
> want to say up to 192 kilosamples per second.   (Yes, I -know- that that 5.1 
> channels looks weird.  Go take it up with the standards committeee.... ) 
> Some manuactures use a sixth track instead of deal with the .1 channel and 
> stickin information from it encdoed onto the other channels.

Uncompressed audio CDs have a bit-rate of 1500 kb/s.  MP3s are somewhat 
less, at 192 kb/s, or less.

--Mark A.