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Is CoffeeCup Software Compatible With Windows 64-Bit?

The short answer is: yes, 99.9% of the time.  The long answer is this: All of our software is designed to work on Windows 7, XP, and Vista 32-bit and 64-bit systems. However, we haven't actually created specific, 64-bit versions of our programs. Why? Well, having a 64-bit version of a software only makes sense for applications that need large amounts of memory (more than 4GB)....

Which Bitrate Should I Use to Get CD-Quality Audio?

This is another of those questions that people debate endlessly. There really is no single (correct) answer - it depends on your ears, your equipment, the quality and complexity of the input sound data, etc. It's probably fair to say that 128 Kbps is a bit on the low side for music, while 160 Kbps encoded well should sound pretty decent to most people. Which MP3 encoder you use really...

What is the Purpose of Audio Compression?

Until audio compression was invented, high-quality digital audio data took a lot of hard disk space to store. Let's go through a short example. Suppose you want to sample your favorite 1-minute song and store it on your hard disk. Because you want CD quality, you sample at 44.1 kHz, stereo, with 16 bits per sample. 44100 Hz means that you have 44,100 values per second coming in...

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