This poll (as some other) is created to collect some data of general tendency in use of audio codecs for a different purposes and contents.

Basicly it contains 3 following questions:

1º - What bitrate do You encode a music to MP3 at?2º - What bitrate do You encode a music to post-MP3 codecs ([HE-]AAC, Vorbis, Opus and other) at?3º - What bitrate do You use for a such purposes like encoding a speech, streaming (radio,podcasting) with a post-MP3 codecs like (HE-)AAC, Vorbis, Opus and other.

QuickTime AAC @256 Kbps VBR for all portable music. (An exception is I often use ALAC for vinyl transfers for the purpose of redundant backups of my FLAC copies. iTunes-matched files are easier to replace.)

QT (HE) AAC @64 Kbps VBR for spoken word stuff. I have a lot of spoken word stuff and I can't imagine how this wouldn't be sufficient and satisfactory even for archival purposes.

When encoding videos in Handbrake I use QuickTime AAC @ 160 Kbps audio (mixed down to 2CH stereo) for the greatest compliance with all devices. (Happily I don't have to suffer the FAAC encoder as I encode video on a Macintosh.)

I almost never encode to MP3. No particular hate as it definitely has its advantages for most. (An exception is if I encode something for a friend's portable usage. In which case it's V0 with the latest LAME encoder. That would likely be the setting I used if I did encode to MP3 for personal use. I struggle to ABX LAME MP3 @ 128 Kbps CBR from its lossless source. I can do it in most cases but it requires a good deal of attention and concentration. IOW V0 would be more than sufficient IMO.)