Everytime I play back a file the bit rate is different at the same frame from when i played it before. Is this supposed to happen or are my files buggered?
are you sure? what are you playing the files in? Your player is probably just displaying the bitrate incorrectly. winamp for example doesn't show VBRs properly, it jumps around form 128 to 160 to 192 and so on
umm, does each individual frame have an actual bitrate itself? i thought it was like a car, it doesnt have a measureable speed at any one instance of time, but over any span of time, like over two or more frames, it has a measureable difference in relative distance which is speed. you cant measure velocity and position at the same time.
likewise, i dont think you can measure bitrate at an exact position in single frames. maybe you can and i dont understand the concept, and if thats the case, could someone clear that up please?
It's not a problem. The files sound great. I was advised by someone a few months ago to use winamp instead of windows media player 10 as winamp can read each frame of audio and display what the bit rate currently is where as wmp 10 can't. Otherwise how would you determine whether a file was VBR or not when playing it. So is winamp crap and should I like for another media player to play my music on.
no, winamp is not crap. it is hands down the best media player there is. but for some reason it was never developed to display the actual changing bitrate of VBR mp3s.
