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Why does a song encoded at low quality take up the same space on disk as the same song encoded at high quality?

April 26, 2017disk encoded high low quality Song

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Why does a song encoded at low quality take up the same space on disk as the same song encoded at high quality?

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The encoder quality only affects the perceived quality of the sound and the time required to encode the sound in AAC format. It does not change the size of the resulting file significantly. In order to generate a smaller or larger file, use the bit rate setting instead.