{"id":3477,"date":"2007-04-10T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2007\/04\/10\/the-256-vs-128-kbps-debate"},"modified":"2007-04-10T11:21:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:21:52","slug":"the-256-vs-128-kbps-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2007\/04\/10\/the-256-vs-128-kbps-debate","title":{"rendered":"The 256 vs. 128 kbps Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Apple and EMI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2007\/04\/02itunes.html\">announcing<\/a> &#8220;higher quality&#8221; (256 kbps) DRM-free music on the iTunes store at a slightly higher price, one might wonder whether the difference between the two can be heard at all.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2163508\">Are iTunes&#8217; Premium Downloads Worth It?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Probably not. Studies have found that as long as you&#8217;re using high-quality encoding software, music compressed to a bitrate of 128 kbps or more is &#8220;transparent&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u201din other words, most listeners can&#8217;t distinguish it from CD quality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have a pretty good idea what your response to that will be&#8230; :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Apple and EMI announcing &#8220;higher quality&#8221; (256 kbps) DRM-free music on the iTunes store at a slightly higher price, one might wonder whether the difference between the two can be heard at all. Are iTunes&#8217; Premium Downloads Worth It? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2007\/04\/10\/the-256-vs-128-kbps-debate\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}