No Serato Scratch does not change the bit rate. Serato is simply an engine for playing your existing MP3's
Noteburner MP3 Bitrate Converter is a commercial program that can change the bitrate while maintaining the ID3 tags which contain the artist and other information.
the 1st one
A MP3 file is actually a compressed WAV file. The compression is: WAV file size / MP3 file size Bitrate is the amount of kBits a mp3 file uses in 1 second. So a 320kB/s file uses 320kBit in 1 second(or 40kBytes/s) The relation is that if the bitrate gets bigger, the compression get's lower.
It won't change the volume of the music majorly but it's the base and sound quality that makes a difference. if you have a low bit rate it might be scratchy or wont sound a s good on high quality speakers.
No you can't. MP3 is a lossy format, so you can't get back the data that's been thrown away.
A typical MP3 file is 5MB, so 700MB holds around 140 songs. It depends on the bitrate of the song of course. CD audio is in Wave format, at around 10 times the bitrate of MP3, so it will take up around 10 times the space. The lower the bitrate, the smaller the files will be, but the worse the audio quality will be.
There is a cool software called "mp3 cutter joiner" in which you can convert .wav to .mp3. It says that it's a cutting and joing program but you can use it as a converter and also a bitrate cutter.
It shouldn't. However, it mainly depends on where you get your songs from. Songs at 128 bitrate could sound great (most likely when legally downloaded) in comparison to songs at 192 (most likely when illegally downloaded) possibly because they were converted from a lower bitrate.
It will be as good as the mp3 onversion software and bitrate allows. Flac to 320K MP3, or VBR v0, with a decent tool, should be excelent sound quality. Flac to 128K MP3 will still sound thin, lifeless and lacking any depth.
MP3 is typically supported by all music players. Advanced Audio Coding are mainly supported by Apple devices. Advanced Audio Coding offer better quality than MP3 at the same bitrate.
It all depends on the memory size of the player, the length of the songs and the bitrate of the songs, also the format of the songs.
Download Express Rip: http://www.nch.com.au/rip/ Once it is installed, open it up and set the output format to .mp3 And output folder to wherever you want Next, press on "Encoder Settings" and press on "Constant Bitrate" Change the bitrate box to "128" and the "channels" box to "Joint" Now you can put your CD in and press "Rip CD" Once it's done you can play the files or put it on your iPod/mp3 player. Next time you need to convert, or "Rip" a CD, all you need to do is put your CD in, open up Express Rip, and press "Rip CD"! To put it on an mp3 player, use Windows Media Player (which comes with your computer by default), or the software that came on your player