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I took @Gsuberland's comments to heart, and tried encoding Aerials at different bitrates. Upon careful listening, I could pick out the 128kbps version. CBR 192, ABR 160, ABR 192, and CBR 320 sound exactly the same as the FLAC to me.
Casually, I can only tell whether it is 56kbps and below, or "good enough". 64-128 CBR sound good enough to me.
That said, I always use ABR 192 to encode.
I wrote a simple PHP script to do the double-blind encoding, just generates X random numbers in an array, writes that array to a file, and then encodes using the value at each array index as the filename. Random enough for me.
The Great MP3 Bitrate Experiment
Lately I've been trying to rid my life of as many physical artifacts as possible. I'm with Merlin Mann on CDs: Although I'd extend that line of thinking to DVDs as well. The death of physical media has some definite downsides, but after owning certain movies once on VHS, then on DVD, and ...
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