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		pornel on April 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Man Who Broke the Music Business iTunes is not selling music in the MP3 format, so the kbit comparison is invalid. Due to limitations of MP3 and advances in AAC it's quite likely that 256kbit AAC is higher quality than MP3 would be at 320kbit.

tempodox on April 21, 2015 [–]

That is an interesting observation. I didn't know this detail, thank you for mentioning it!

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