Yeah, the funny thing is each of these have advantages and "sweet spots" (no pun intended), but the bitrates anyone here is likely to listen to with their decent phones isn't very different than the others (say ~192-256). It's more what characteristics you prefer. Even MP3 (with the LAME presets) still competes very favorably in this range. If anyone is interested in similar tests across formats (and at bitrates unlikely anyone here would choose use for music - though you get an idea about the iTMS files and how they compare to non-LAME normal MP3's from the second- compare Blade to AAC) see 64 kbps here and 128 kbps here. Note: WMA is the Pro version (in 128 test), not conventional WMA (in 64 test) used in the online services or for portables and is not backwards compatible.

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128 KBPS