What bitrate you rip your music at?! (please po

Question

Come on, everybody post your rip settings:
- Player: [your player model/models (inculde size)]
- Format: [what format you rip to]
- Bitrate: [what bitrate you rip at]
... this came up the other they. Was wondering what quality wich is supose to be close to CD, and before I start ripping my whole cd collection, I whould like to hear whats the usuall settings.
Anyways, I'll start by post what I used so far:
- Player: Zen Micro (5gb)
- Format: mp3
- Bitrate: 28kbs
... now, your turn!

Answer 1

Player: Zen Xtra 40 GB
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 28 for pop/rock, 92 for classical, 320 for stuff I'm still going to edit and then save at a lower bitrate, always encode everything with LAME at quality 0 (highest)
Rap seems to have the highest tolerance for bad sound quality -- it even sounds good over lousy headphones. I'd encode rap at around 96 kbps, though I generally don't listen to it anyway. Classical is the most sensiti've to sound quality. Classical simply doesn't sound right unless it's reproduced with very high fidelity.
I generally consider 320 kbps to be excessi've. LAME can do very good with almost any recording at 92 and quality at 0. I only ever use 320 when I'm recording something I'm going to do more editing on but won't edit for some time, say an LP I want to remove skips from. I'd normally use WAV, but the files are too dang big to reasonably store many of them.
WMA can supposedly achieve better quality at lower bitrates than MP3. However, it performs best at low bitrates, making it a perfect codec for streaming audio but not so good for storage of high quality music. Also, they suck up a lot more battery life than MP3s.