FORUM: MiniDisc VS MP3

... that is the question really. Bear with me on this one, as this is going to be a long haul really. ------ |MP3s| ------ What are MP3s? -------------- There are numerous sites out there to give you good details on what they are, including: http://www.howstuffworks.com/mp3.htm But quite simply put, they're a computer format that encodes audio, or sounds to you and me. If you recorded CD quality sound onto a computer it would take buckets and buckets of room up and be very intensive to work with, so instead MP3s compress the music. To make the file sizes even smaller to work with, MP3s are usually recorded ...

In the Blue Corner... Minidiscs. And in the Red Corner... MP3's. But, an MP3 is a file format, MiniDiscs are a storage medium! So, this is going to be a general article about all the different storage mediums. 1. MP3's An MP3 file is a compressed audio file. Unlike CD's, tapes and MiniDisc's they are not tied to a certain medium, and can run freely between computers, MP3 players, CD-R/CD-RW's. There are a few problems with the MP3 format, one being the compression standards used in MP3's, which is described by the geek fraternity as being 'lossy', which means that as you encode something to MP3, it will lose some ...

As a follow up to the excellent article posted by EazyDude, here's some more recent analysis based on how the formats compare a year on. Im currently deciding which to go for ;) MP3s 1) MP3s are not as good as CD quality sound -- choose your bit rate, 192kb just as good as CD 2) Most MP3s are not legal copies, but are free -- Most MDs are ripped from CD ;) 3)You have to get busy and find those MP3s and download them, taking time -- Now easier and quicker than going down to HMV! 4) MP3s create instant jukeboxes -- They do 5) No skipping ever on MP3 players -- Woohoo! 6) Limited memory size of protable ...