Bit rate
Revision as of 01:19, 22 January 2019 by DoesItReallyMatter (talk | contribs) (Huh. So Corbax made a similar page in 2013 that I couldn't find from the search. I like the brevity there, applying that here.)
The Bit rate or bitrate of media measures the bits used to store the data per second (kilobits per second, kbit/s or kbps). It is formally defined as the product of (bits per sample) × (samples per second).
Some common bit rates for mp3 files are 128 kbit/s (standard), 192 kbit/s (medium quality), 256 kbit/s (high quality) and 320 kbit/s (highest quality).
A low bit rate (below about 128 kbps) makes for poor audio quality.
