your correct, however no matter which way you rip a cd, you are going to have some level of quality loss. by setting the bitrate higher than the cd's you can limit that.
128 is bare minimum cd quality. i like to keep most of my songs around the 300's, but of couse i have lower ones that i have downloaded off the internet.
bitrate is the quality of a song, the higher the bit rate, the better the quality.
and wav, mp3, and ect are all different formats aka they use different encoding methods to come out with different types of audio.
lol i remeber the first cd that had the garbage track on it. it was a celine dion cd, and geeks everywhere were buying them just to crack the copy protection lol. *scribbles out track with marker*
im going to make your choices really simple
if you want a desktop done right, build your own
if you want a laptop done right, get a dell.
if you want a desktop replacement get an hp.
if your retarded buy a mac.
not all songs are encoded at the same bitrate with the same codec. like i have mp3's that are 3 megs, and i have mp3's that are 10 or 15 megs. i also have the huge .ape and .flac file formats for my initial d ost's. you just have to encode them all at a lower bitrate
I know this is old but this got my attention. If this is still going on, i think 00Smurf still comes to Whempys LAN Party in worthington where i am an admin, i could look him up there.