Pat, when your wife ripped the CD songs to MP3, she may have had a choice of sample rates and chosen poorly. I won’t even consider anything under 192 and usually encode at 320. 128 would definitely remove enough for me to be very unhappy.

It’s a catch 22 to decide how to prepare music for audiences, particularly younger ones, when your own hearing is compromised. Better to use the best you can.


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