What is ideal bitrate for streaming MP3 from website?

What bitrate is the best compromise for quality vs. accessibility for streaming music MP3s for a band website? What bitrate does MySpace use?

What is ideal bitrate for streaming MP3 from website?

Most websites who are mindful of bandwidth stream at 96kbps. 128kbps offers radio quality, but is a little more strenuous on bandwidth if the site has many users.

Myspace does not stream MP3, since their songs are formatted into flash applets.

To the guy below me; I believe the asker is inquiring about streaming mp3s FROM his own website to end users, not the opposite.

What is ideal bitrate for streaming MP3 from website?

Hi

The ideal bitrate hah? The value actually depends on your Internet connection speed.

For example, If you have a 256 kbps broadband connection, most suitable bitrate could be 128 kbps. You can have a maximum of 180 kbps . Go beyond that , you will suffer smoothness in stream.

I guess that answers your question.

Thanks for asking.

If you have another question feel free to ask. I would be more than happy to help you

What is ideal bitrate for streaming MP3 from website?

if you have a connection speed of 128 kbps to 256 kbps

than mp3 bitrate of 96 Kbps is good

if you have a connection speed of 256 kbps to 512 Kbps

than mp3 bitrate of 128 Kbps is good

if you have a connection speed of above 512 kbps

than mp3 bitrate of 160 or 192 Kbps is good