Poor quality of audiobooks from iTunes store

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JohnR

Poor quality of audiobooks from iTunes store
« on: 6 Apr 2010, 06:32 am »
I bought a couple of audiobooks from the iTunes store. I guess I assumed they would be fine for use in the car, but... they're compressed like crazy - one channel @ 30kbps, a whole 2.5 hours shoehorned into 30 megabytes. The difference to the same type of material (different book but same series, actually it's a radio play) ripped from CD in AAC is easily apparent even in the car.

Anyone else had the same experience - are all audiobooks on the iTunes store like this? I'll have to re-buy these as CDs and rip them... :duh: