RE: What bit rate to export for dial up modems?
2005/12/11 10:28:08
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Paul,
> is this as small as i could get for dial up modem? <
I listened to one of your "dial up" WMA versions and it sounded pretty good considering the bit rate.
Back in the days of modems I used to encode everything in RealAudio at 20 Kbps, which sounds terrible. Then when hi-speed Internet became more common I added parallel MP3 versions at 128 Kbps. Just a few months ago I removed all the low-res RealAudio versions because they sound so bad. There's nothing wrong with having two versions, but if I was stuck with a modem today I'd rather wait five minutes to download a song at higher quality than hear a low-res version that's all swirly sounding but can stream.
--Ethan