Why does Windows Media Player claim it is playing
my song at 128 kbits / second?

That's 16000 bytes / second. I thought it only worked at these
sampling rates:

11025
22050
44100

and these bit rates:

8
16
32

On 6 Jun 2006 00:40:51 -0700, wrote:

Why does Windows Media Player claim it is playing
my song at 128 kbits / second?

That's 16000 bytes / second. I thought it only worked at these
sampling rates:

11025
22050
44100

and these bit rates:

8
16
32

The 128k number has nothing to do with the recording rates. It is the
delivery rate of the MP3 stream, and depends on the amount of
compression applied during MP3 coding

d

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wrote:

Why does Windows Media Player claim it is playing
my song at 128 kbits / second?

That's 16000 bytes / second. I thought it only worked at these
sampling rates:

11025
22050
44100

and these bit rates:

8
16
32

It'll be an mp3 file. 128kbps is very common.

Graham

wrote:
Why does Windows Media Player claim it is playing
my song at 128 kbits / second?

That's 16000 bytes / second. I thought it only worked at these
sampling rates:

11025
22050
44100

These are sample rates. Those have little to do with MP3 bitrates.

and these bit rates:

8
16
32

Those are not bitrates, but bit depths.

You are playing an MP3 or similar compessed-data music file. The figures
you are expecting relate to linear PCM files or CD playback.

geoff

wrote ...
Why does Windows Media Player claim it is playing
my song at 128 kbits / second?

I'll bet you are playing a (compressed) MP3 file.

That's 16000 bytes / second. I thought it only worked at these
sampling rates:

11025
22050
44100

Yes, those are some common sampling rates.
for uncompressed recording. The last one (44.1K)
is the CD standard.

and these bit rates:

8
16
32

Those are actually sample widths (not rates) for
uncompressed encoding. 16 is most common (CD
standard), 8 is used mostly for low-quality telephony,
and 24-bit is more common than 32-bit and is used
for tracking, mastering, etc. IME, WMP will not play
24 or 32 bit files.