[V3lier]

What bitrate do you guys prefer when encoding? I recently started getting all my albums up-to-date in 320kb because I'm planning on buying new iems and I don't want the low bitrates to ruin my new experience lol.

 

[BigEat]

ALAC or WAV (Lossless)

 

[ClieOS]

Due to my DAP's limitation, either >192kbps LAME mp3 or 135~215kbps VBR wma. Both sounds fine to me.

 

[Scott549]

I use the Lame mp3 encoder at the V0 setting, which gives me 200+ kbps VBR files. They sound really good; doubtful I could distinguish lossless for 90% of my music. In a few years mp3's will no longer be necessary, though, I would guess.

 

[Warhawk]

I prefer Ogg Vorbis for smaller file sizes.
Right now I'm using q3, but hopefully when I have more memory I might do q5 or q8.

 

[omegaman]

Apple lossless for me.

 

[krmathis]

Variable bitrate here, anything between 2kbps and ~6470kbps.
Apple Lossless to be specific...

 

[ianmedium]

WMA at around 320(it varies but is never lower than 306!) I find this gives exceptional sound through my sony NWZA826 and ety er6i's

 

[knights]

192-VBR-aac via iTunes for my portables...

 

[steviebee]

FLAC or OGG q8-10.
Occasionally 320 VBR MP3 and even more occasionally WMA Lossless.

 

[lewislink]

For larger capacity players, 4 to 8GB, using OGG@500Kbs which equals the highest Q level. For smaller capacity players, 128 to 512MB, using WMA@64Kbs. WMA@64 is outstanding for its quality of sound.

Some day lossless will get used, though.

 

[Agnostic]

For Ipod use lame V0 (around 230Kbps vbr)
For home use I switched to FLAC. No reason to stay lossy with the current low storage prices.

 

[LnxPrgr3]

lame -V0

Lossless has a shot at sounding better, but -V0 is pretty far up the diminishing returns ladder.

I doubt it or 320kbps would ruin the experience

 

[Barock]

In order of preference, depending on device:

Wav / CD audio
320k
256k
VBR (up to 320k)
192k

 

[Shiki]

For portable use, I simply use 128kbps Ogg (aotuv). For my music archive on my PC I use FLAC level 8.