Find Bits Per Sample?

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Where can I find the bits per sample for an MP3 in AA cs6?
I tried in the Finder and in AA cs6???

I did the sum and came up with 113kbps! Yes it's sort-of possible to work out what the compression ratio is, but what's the point? Right-clicking on an MP3 and going to the advanced properties will tell you all that anyway, as it's in the header information. It has to be there, otherwise the decoder wouldn't have the faintest idea what to do with it.
What it doesn't tell you though is anything about the quality of the file, because it doesn't indicate what it was encoded from. A good original coded at 128k can easily sound better than one coded at 320k from a crap source. The compression ratio per se means nothing at all, except to indicate the best it could possibly be. Certainly doesn't tell you the worst, because it would come out at the same answer from an 8-bit original as it would from a 16 or 32-bit one - for 128k, that's about 938k per minute of stereo audio - it's compressed at around 11:1 (depending slightly on the complexity of the audio) of the 16-bit file. Or 22:1 of the 32-bit one. See the problem?
To put it starkly - a 320kbps MP3 file made from an 8-bit original will almost certainly sound rather worse than the same material, only 16 or 32-bit, encoded as a 128kbps MP3. Aside from any other considerations, the noise floor will be lower in the 128k one!
Also, I suspect that the OP actually means kbps, which is seconds, not samples...

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