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[druiaghtagh]

 When you are downloading music, does the bit rate determine the quality of the track please?

[kifaru]

Short answer, yes. Long answer, read on... Data is measured in bits. Bits stands for "Binary digIT". Most of us know that binary is composed of 1's and 0's. That's how your internet connection works, by translating bits of information through your phone line or cable. It works similar to morse code. If you think of it in terms of light or sound, Morse uses short and long flashes or beeps to communicate letters and numbers, but binary uses flash on and off (1 & 0), which is more productive (faster). There are 8 bits in a byte, 1024 bytes in a Megabyte (or 8192 bits), and 1024 Kb (kilobytes) in a Megabyte and so on. Information always moves in multiples of 8. Why? Tell me and we'll both know :)  To answer the original question, the more bits of information you have per second, the higher the quality will be. In a loose analogy, if you beat a drum 100 times a minute, but only could record it fast enough to get 50 of those beats, you're missing information in between. Put those beats into seconds and you can see just how much information you can lose in a music track. Hope I've been helpful to all who find this.

[Mattk]

short answer :-

yes - only go for 128 or higher 

[druiaghtagh]

Thankyou kifaru for a most informative answer.

[Mattk]

yeh no problem here either !

thanks for the appreciation

[Kerplunk]

oooh, get you!!