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JimH:
I would.

WolfWalker:
Do I need to copy all the files to another drive so that I may keep the orginals

Alex B:

--- Quote from: WolfWalker on March 01, 2011, 11:53:35 am ---so i should use High Quality Portable vbr instead of 128
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Absolutely. You can expect the overall average bitrate to be about 130-140 kbps for modern loud pop/rock music and 115-130 kbps for classical, "quiet jazz", acoustic folk, etc. Naturally individual files may vary more.

Also, if you must re-encode (aka transcode) you should avoid transcoding files that are below about 200 kbps (if you care about audio quality). This is of course just my opinion, but I follow that rule when I "must" create smaller files for a portable. Naturally you can convert a bunch of various test files (perhaps of different genres) and judge the quality by yourself.


--- Quote from: WolfWalker on March 01, 2011, 12:12:26 pm ---Do I need to copy all the files to another drive so that I may keep the orginals
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In any case that would be a good precaution if don't already have a backup archive of the files.

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