Recording audio and conversion?

Question

i have a question, which bit rate is better, 128kbits/second or 160 kbits/second or higher is better ? and output sample rate of 44.100 or 48.000 khz? i am a source from internet music streaming and wants to save it as a AAC format or MP3 for listening to my ipod.

Answer 1

the higher the better, but 128kb/s is cd quality so you wont notice much of a difference higher than 128.