can someone explain something to me?

i have some mp3s in my share that i know are 256kbps, but slsk reports them as 160kbps with excessive track lengths corresponding... how does this happen?

Variable Bit Rates?

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:36 PM, chassis said:

Variable Bit Rates?

no, these are constant bit rate mp3s

soulseek? the world of the internet functions with numbers and maths and stuff, must be some formula that's wrong so it shows IMPOSSIBLE things, weird science!!!

It's soulseek dude.

Soulseek doesn't always quantize the bitrate accurately, that's not really your fault. If it's about downloading from other users, what you can do is compare the track's duration (according to discogs.com for example) to the file's size, so you can judge if the audio quality is good enough for you.

Edit: Chassis is wrong, it occurs with both CBR and VBR formats.

maybe soulseek gets track times by dividing the file size by the bit rate, and it's getting incorrect bitrates for some reason.

How do you know theyre 256kbps?

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:47 PM, chassis said:

How do you know theyre 256kbps?

they're from livephish.com and every mp3 i've ever gotten from there has been 256kbps, also when i play them in foobar2000 it says they're 256kbps

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:47 PM, chassis said:

How do you know theyre 256kbps?

the computer told me!

Then clearly slsk is shite.

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:49 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:47 PM, chassis said:

How do you know theyre 256kbps?

the computer told me!

carry on, my wayward son

I have downloaded stuff there (no I haven't) that was supposedly a certain bitrate and then after downloading and importing them into my player they show as 160kbps. Anger happened!

who's stealing my kbs???

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:58 PM, sidewinder said:

I have downloaded stuff there (no I haven't) that was supposedly a certain bitrate and then after downloading and importing them into my player they show as 160kbps. Anger happened!

but that is a crime

  On 6/14/2010 at 10:00 PM, tht tne said:

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:58 PM, sidewinder said:

I have downloaded stuff there (no I haven't) that was supposedly a certain bitrate and then after downloading and importing them into my player they show as 160kbps. Anger happened!

 

but that is a crime

it's like when you steal a car and then it doesn't have air conditioning

fucking soulseek, how does it work?

(people still use slsk? )

slsk pwns the shit out of everything. There's some stuff you just can't find anywhere else.

  On 6/15/2010 at 12:24 PM, Echo said:

slsk pwns the shit out of everything. There's some stuff you just can't find anywhere else.

google/google blogs?

  On 6/14/2010 at 10:00 PM, tht tne said:

  On 6/14/2010 at 9:58 PM, sidewinder said:

I have downloaded stuff there (no I haven't) that was supposedly a certain bitrate and then after downloading and importing them into my player they show as 160kbps. Anger happened!

 

but that is a crime

But I said I didn't.