"Real" bitrate of files on burned audio CD?

[A2H]

I was wondering if anybody knows how to go about this issue:

I have several audio CDs that were created for me quite a few years back. I'm currently (i.e. the last 1+ yrs...) in the process of ripping all my CDs, including those burned onto CD-Rs. They were all created as "real" CDs, so they could be played in a regular CD player, i.e. they are not .mp3, but .cda files. This, of course, means that they show a really high bitrate (1411 kbps).

Judging by filesize AND my hearing, the source files were anything but this stellar quality. Hence it would be silly to rip them as FLACs, as I do all my real CDs. I would like to rip them with the appropriate bitrate. The problem, of course: how to find that bitrate?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I searched around online for a while a bit, but to no avail.

[Lowlander]

I don't think you can find the original bitrate. The files have been converted to 1411 kbps.

[nohitter151]

Like Lowlander said, it's impossible to know. When burning an audio CD the files are all converted to the red book standard.

That being said, any further compression on the ripped files is only going to make them sound worse, so it doesn't really matter. (as converting a 128kbps track to 1411kbps WAV, then back to 128kbps results in a quality loss)

[A2H]

Ah well, thought as much, but wanted to be absolutely sure. Thanks to you both!

Guess I'll have to ... uh... find those songs ... somewhere.