There's nothing bad about 128kb encoding. I did a test with three versions of the same track; one at original WAV, one at 128k and one at 256k, using LAME. I copied each 3x (making 9 tracks) and put them randomly on a CD. Nobody that I gave it to could tell which tracks were the originals.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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512 MB is enough for 120 songs - that should be more than enough for most jogs (alot more than enough).
Just fill it with dance music and club beats and you'll never get tired of it.
There's nothing bad about 128kb encoding. I did a test with three versions of the same track; one at original WAV, one at 128k and one at 256k, using LAME. I copied each 3x (making 9 tracks) and put them randomly on a CD. Nobody that I gave it to could tell which tracks were the originals.
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You really think you can appreciate lossless quality in a noisy gym, or the outdoors?
512 mb may be less, but it is more than enough for the purpose it was designed for.