CD Bitrate?

edited January 2011 in Spurious Generalities
What's the bitrate of songs on a CD? I'm asking because my friend confused me the other day by telling me that CD's only have 128K music on them, but I'm pretty sure he's wrong.

Enlighten me, totse.

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  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited January 2011
    A CD stores music uncompressed at a sampling rate of 44,100 Hz; a sample size of 16 bits and in stereo - 2 channels. The bitrate is 44,100 X 16 X 2 = 1,411,200 bits per second.
  • edited January 2011
    Uncompressed? So I could rip a song at 320Kbps and stick it in this guys face?
  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited January 2011
    You could rip OOG files from a CD at 500Kbps and stick it up his ass if ya' wanted.
  • skyclaw441skyclaw441 Regular
    edited January 2011
    128 K of music? I think he's sadly mistaken. An average CD holds about ~700 MB of data, which in the CD audio world is about 80 minutes of 16 bit stereo audio.
  • SliceSlice Regular
    edited January 2011
    skyclaw441 wrote: »
    128 K of music? I think he's sadly mistaken. An average CD holds about ~700 MB of data, which in the CD audio world is about 80 minutes of 16 bit stereo audio.

    He was talking about bitrate. I would definitely lol if someone told me a CD only holds 128 K :o:o:o

    But yeah, CD's store music in uncompressed lossless format so you can rip songs at whatever bitrate you want.
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited January 2011
    Real men use DTS Audio.
  • edited January 2011
    Dfg wrote: »
    Real men use DTS Audio.

    So DTS Audio is forbidden in moslem countries?
  • DfgDfg Admin
    edited January 2011
    So DTS Audio is forbidden in moslem countries?

    Nah, I don't think anyone uses it here.
  • edited January 2011
    Dfg wrote: »
    Nah, I don't think anyone uses it here.

    I'm surprised Imams don't issue fatwas against them, to prevent the local jizzlamic population from becoming real men.
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