[s-cars] iPod questions... NAC

[John Cody Forbes]

auctionpics at cox.net wrote:
> Ok this is a joke right?
>
> i think you need to spend a few minutes reading about a thing we
> people in the late 20th century called the mp3...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3
>
> good luck dave

I think what he would have said had he woken up on the proper side of the 
bed this morning is something like this:

The data stored on your given audio CD is in a format that takes up gobs of 
space. A standard audio CD cam hold about 80 minutes of audio, which is 
roughly 700mb of data. While the quality is excelent, there are better 
formats such as the MP3 format that your I-Pod (and nearly everything else) 
uses. The MP3 format when properly configured can play back audio at a 
quality level completely indistingushible by any person from full CD 
quailty, but take up a teensy fraction of the space. When converting to MP3 
normally you can select a 'bitrate', which is in simple terms a measure of 
how much audio you want stuffed into a unit of space. A higher bitrate will 
yeild a higher quailty level. 128 bit MP3s are commonplace and are very good 
quality, but some prefer to go as high as 320 bit. The MP3 is how a um... 
"certain person that I may sorta know" has over 20,000 songs stored in under 
60gb of space.

Many current generation car stereos can play MP3 format, which allows you to 
store HUNDREDS of songs on a single disc, a very nice feature!

-Cody