Amazon Music

I just got the Audio CD on Amazon by Billie Eilish so it is coming in the Mail.

I just got an E Mail from Amazon Telling me that after you Buy an Audio CD you will get a Free Copy in you Amazon Music Account.
So I Log In and go to my Music Account and it is here and plays good.

On the Right Hand Side it says Download.
I Click it and it Download and it puts a Cpoy on my DeskTop.

It Downloaded an MP3 Copy to my DekTop.

Just for the Hell of it I opened the MP3 Copy of one of the Songs in MediaInfo.

And it says it is 2. Audio Tracks Stereo.
And it says it is 44.1 Khz this is Standard Audio CD FREQ.

But the Bit Rate says 248 kbps and if you look all over the Internet they say if you Encode an Audio CD as MP3 use 256 kbps this will be close to no compression.

So why does Amazon Give MP3 Cpoies at 246 kbps and not 256 kbps?

Or do I not understand what is going on?

 

This is not true.
A bitrate of 256 reduces the file size by more than 5 times.

248 kbps is not a standard Constant Bitrate (CBR).
Is it perhaps Variable Bitrate (VBR) or Average Bitrate (ABR)?
Check some of the other tracks in MediaInfo.

 

Ok I just checked another Track it it says 256 kbps at 44.1 KHz Stereo.

And the one I checked before says 248 kbps at 44.1 KHz Stereo.

So when Amazon is Ripping them Off of the CD I will be getting in the Mail they are using Different MP3 Bitrates for every Track.

Why are they doing this?
Let me Tell you what I know and you can Tell me if I am Off?

When I make an MP3 to put on my Tablet and so on I Rip the Track from my CD first.
Then as I Convert it to MP3 I pick the FREQ. and I pick 44.1 KHz for CD Quality.

Now when you pick the MP3 Bitrate you want I know the Lower the Bitrate you pick the More Compression the MP3 Encoder will use.
So if you pick 128 kbps the MP3 Encode will use More Compression and if you pick say 256 kbps the MP3 Encoder will use Less Compression.

And the Less Compression the MP3 Encoder will use the Hiher the Quality of sound.
I know 256 kbps is still Compressing but it is Less Compression.
And they say it is Close to CD Quality and still using Compression.

This is what I was saying.

 

Download speeds, music quality and storage space. A 256 kbps file doesn't lose much quality, usually downloads pretty fast and takes up less space compared to an uncompressed file. Many users are downloading content to a phone that has limited storage so the compression matters, a lot. Also convenience. An mp3 will play on just about any default music app so it is the most popular format.

With audio files 256 to 320 seem to be the "sweet spot" where, unless you are using high end audio equipment, most people can not tell it is compressed and save as much storage space as possible on a mobile device compared to a lossless format like FLAC. BUT there has always been a raging debate on what is the best format. People have their preference and I'm not going to tell anyone they are wrong. I know what works for me.

I have a pretty large mp3 collection that is mostly 256 kbps to 320 kbps. I can't tell the difference between the two but when a song that is compressed down to 128 kbps plays then I can easily notice the poor quality.

 

You haven't checked whether the tracks are CBR or VBR.

You probably ordered the MP3 CD instead of the Audio CD.

 

I've purchased CDs and got downloads too.

 

Being back in school, I'm getting Amazon online music for 99 cents per month. That's about all it's worth.

Volume leveling is nonexistent. One song in a playlist is in the mud; the next track seems to double the volume.

Oh, and many of the 70s/80s oldies aren't by the original artists, even if listed as such.

 

Sometimes they re-record their songs if they don't own the masters so they get more money.

 

@biferi
Are you coming back to this thread, or should I (we) just ignore your posts?