Is 64 kbps wma file as good as 128 kbps mp3?

128 kbps  128 is fine for me and for non iTunes Plus songs, you get 128 there as well You'll get much better battery life from the iPod and you can fit allot more songs Anyways, I did all my encoding at 128kbps After I finished , I was talking to a friend of mine who had just finished doing the same thing with

A 128 Kbps AAC file generally sounds much better than a 128 Kbps MP3 file In fact, tests by the group that developed the AAC standard found that a 96 Kbps We are going to do a quasi-scientific study here with the z=z community, to see if people can hear the difference between 128 kbps and 320 kbps audio streams

there's really no rational reason AT&T can give for keeping 128kbps throttle as even Verizon with their questionable LTE capacity still does It's the data rate of the song, meaning the amount of storage needed to store 1 second of the song It's in K-bitsec and 128kbps = 16K-bytesec