I rip all my CDs to my hard drive. I used to save them as .wavs, because of the losslessness. but I recently uploaded over 5gigs of .m4a files from my brother's ipod. All together, they nearly filled up a 300gig external hard drive. So, I thought, I had better compress my .wavs. I was quite impressed with the sound quality of the .m4as (128kbps) that I'd gotten from my brother. So I decided to compress all my .wavs to .m4a, at 128kbps. The resulting sound quality was still very good, and I got the total size of my collection down to just over 40gigs.
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