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Re:Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name by dkonofalski on Thursday October 08, 2015 @05:18PM (#10356327)
I've heard this before elsewhere and the response then was that the person was confusing kilobits with kilobytes. 1411kbps/8bits/byte = 176.375Kbps. The closest you can get to that is 192Kbps. There's a big difference there.
Re:Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name by adrianpike on Thursday October 08, 2015 @06:50PM (#10356937)
MP3 bitrates are conventionally given in kilobits per second, not bytes.