Burning music files to USB

[Daved59]

Hello all,

I would like to burn music to a USB drive and I am not sure what format to use for the best quality. Is there really much of a difference as far as quality goes. I know some formats require more space but that's not an issue on an 8 or 16 gig drive.
Also, does anyone leave their USB drive plugged in all the time and not have a problem ?

Thanks

 

[JbCalg]

mine are all mp3, 128 or 256 kbps
better quality should give you better sound generally
otherwise just turn volume up LOL

no issues here with usb left plugged in - shuffle works fine, resumes where left off, etc
but i don't use folders, just dump them all on it
just make sure file properties are filled in - ie title etc - usually are, depends on where they are downloaded or ripped from

 

[ColtX-5]

Hello all,

I would like to burn music to a USB drive and I am not sure what format to use for the best quality. Is there really much of a difference as far as quality goes. I know some formats require more space but that's not an issue on an 8 or 16 gig drive.
Also, does anyone leave their USB drive plugged in all the time and not have a problem ?

Thanks

The easiest (handiest) will be MP3, because most computers will have audio software that will rip a CD to MP3. Plus, you can easily buy or download MP3s from all over the interwebs. MP3 is inherently a poor quality format because of the heavy compression and information loss, but most audible effects go away at 320 kbps (the stereo image is non-existent, though). CDs are 1411 kbps, for reference, and not compressed or lossy. DVD-Audio, the gold standard of digital audio with sound quality equal to vinyl, is 9216k. Wav files are a common, pretty good uncompressed, non-lossy format, but there are others.

http://lifehacker.com/5927052/whats...hese-audio-formats-and-which-one-should-i-use

 

[brillo54]

+1 ColtX-5 and a very good link. To the OP, I leave one or two USB's plugged in all the time and have never had a problem.

 

[Bon Scott]

I wish mine supported FLAC.

Bon Scott