judging from what i see available on my programs for downloading, quite a few people still rip mp3s and 128 kbps. i know it doesn't sound great, but 128's prolly what you've gotta have everything at if you wanna fit 10,000 songs on your 40-gig iPod, etc. i've got a 40-gig creative nomad jukebox zen xtra, and my 41 gigs of music (just over 10,000 songs) won't all fit, quite naturally.
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