Max possible MP3 bitrates

[Dean]

Hi,
I own an iPod 3G but MP3 support isn't implemented at the moment but I was thinking of getting a new one, maybe a Nano but I'm not sure.  My question is what is the max bitrate I can get away with when playing in MP3 as most of my music is encodered in VBR with either min 192KBPS to 320KBPS or 192 to 256.  This would cause a stutter wouldn't it?

[Febs]

This is somewhat offtopic, but you could get better results and avoid the stuttering problems by encoding with one of LAME's -V presets rather than contraining the encoder by using an unnecessarily high lower boundary on the bitrate.

[ryran]

If you're still encoding music to mp3, definitely use lame -v3 or something. As for high cbr stuff with rockbox: neither my video or nano have ever had skipping problems w 320kbps mp3s, ever. (Trying to play games/use eq/peakmeters not included.)

[Mikerman]

Hi,
I own an iPod 3G but MP3 support isn't implemented at the moment but I was thinking of getting a new one, maybe a Nano but I'm not sure.  My question is what is the max bitrate I can get away with when playing in MP3 as most of my music is encodered in VBR with either min 192KBPS to 320KBPS or 192 to 256.  This would cause a stutter wouldn't it?

I get no stuttering with such settings.

[Llorean]

The iPod 3G doesn't actually have skip-free playback yet.

The processor, the PP5002, has a very very slow cache. Most consider it "broken". At least, if I understand correctly. The current iPod playback code does not yet take that into account, and tries to work the same as it does on the newer PP502x series of processors.

[GuitarRocker2562]

Way to put it! Anyway, I use lame vbr 160-192kbps and I have no problems.

The iPod 3G doesn't actually have skip-free playback yet.

The processor, the PP5002, has a very very slow cache. Most consider it "broken". At least, if I understand correctly. The current iPod playback code does not yet take that into account, and tries to work the same as it does on the newer PP502x series of processors.