One note on
MP3 sound quality:
As a
sound designer, I have discovered that in
performance spaces with a lot of
flutter echo, tracks recorded from
MP3s tend to sound better than tracks recorded directly from
CDs. This
may be because of the '
inaudible' sounds that are removed during
compression, leaving less sound to bounce off the walls. There is one
theater I've worked in that is particularly bad when it comes to
echo (
concrete walls and nothing soft to
absorb sound); in most cases, the flatter, muffled sound of the
mp3 track is much better in the space than the sound from the original source, as the sound bounces so much it is almost impossible to hear clearly.