A lot depends on the playback equipment and your intended audience.

I have an iPod with 10,000 songs on it that I culled from my extensive CD and LP collection (I'm a music junkie). I rip them for the iPod at 128.

Why? I play the iPod in the car, I call it "Radio Bob". With the road noise I can't hear the finer points of the music anyway, so why waste flash memory space?

I like a variety of music from blues to pop to jazz to Latin to classical (Romantic era to Contemporary) and more. There are no variety stations here, and the single format stations seem to play the same songs over and over and spend too much time advertising (I know that pays the bills). With 10,000 songs in rotation on my iPod, I get only songs I like with minimal repetition.

For listening in my home it's CDs or LPs.

Backing tracks in clubs at 192kbps through my Pa.

So it depends on where and why I'm listening.

Notes

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