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[billfromnorthwales]

Well then, if you have heard from quality of the tapes digitised thus 
far, we might say that 128kbs should be fine for non lossless 
distribution?


 --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Ed Powley <zen30378@...> wrote:
>
> Martin Wheatley wrote:
> > You can do mono mp3s but it doesn't affect the filesize
> 
> Not directly, but you can encode a mono mp3 at a lower bitrate than a 
> stereo mp3 and get the same sound quality. A file encoded in mono 
mode 
> at 96kbps should sound as good as a file in stereo mode at 192kbps. 
> That's an over-simplification if you start getting into things like 
> joint-stereo encoding, but you get the general idea.
> 
> Ed
>