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Originally Posted by marknorton
Besides, as soon as you start using MP3, sound quality takes a back seat anyway.
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That's very true. But of course the bit rate has an influence on the sound quality too. How Apple can get away with selling 128 kbs tracks on iTunes is beyond me. I rip my CDs at 256 kbs and I have to say they sound reasonable on my iPod. Mind you, that's after ditching the rather poor supplied headphones for a pair of Sennheisner 'ear bud' type of headphones. My only regret is that when I started to rip the CDs I didn't chose a lossless format. Few tracks on the iPod, but I'd feel better streaming them in house from a server.
But as you say it's not about sound quality, it's about portability. The fact that I can have a device with several hundred albums on it that's the size of a pack of cards is amazing.