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Topic: Some Songs in ITUNES have a higher bitrate?

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Old 02-23-2007, 07:08 PM
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Question Some Songs in ITUNES have a higher bitrate?

So i downloaded a couple of songs today and one of the songs was only like 3 minutes but the file was like 7.9mb ususally songs of this lenght are like 3mb so i looked the info and the song was


298KBPS AAC Audio File

i must say the song sounds perfect

so i looked into my purchased songs and there were a couple of them that were

around 260KBPS AAC but the rest were 128K AAC

is there a reason why some songs are encoded this high but the majority are not?

kinda sux it would be nice if all songs were
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i think its just apple which will enventually upgrade all songs to the higer bitrate...or certain songs may only be in a hight bitrate..thats wierd
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well it looks like the only songs i purchased from itunes that are encoded higher than 128 are dance songs.. so i dont know.. it would really be great if they were all this way
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Humm..well I'm looking through my songs I find some to actually be lower than 128kbps,

Faith Evans - True Love is 122kbps is encoded with FAAC 1.24+ as well.

Snap! - Rythmn is a Dancer (CJ Stone Radio Remix) is 293kbps, and is encoded with FAAC 1.24+.

Seems as though not all of them are encoded the same, don't ask me why. Otherwise the other 450 songs are the same ol 128kbps AAC.
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