eq72521 Wrote: > When I purchased my first Squeezebox about 16 months ago, I myself was > happy to find a product like it that dealt with Ogg in any manner; not > many do. Since then, I've decided to work on phasing Ogg out of my > library. Ogg is impressive and sounds much better to me than MP3 at > any given bitrate, but nothing lossy is ever going to beat something > lossless for sound quality. Storage is cheap and only getting cheaper. > For those reasons, I'm transitioning to FLAC (and I hope ripping all my > stuff for the last damned time). I think that SD saw these trends as > well, which is why I think they went for native FLAC support and have > native Ogg support way down on the priority list. I love Ogg as much > as the next slashdot reading geek, but I fear that its chances for mass > acceptance may have passed.
While I almost 100% agree with you here, I think mobile devices will still depend on lossy formats for at least another couple of years until storage is large (in capacity), small (in size), and inexpensive. I also really like the ogg format. For my iriver, I use ogg with Rockbox and the format can almost not be beat. My library at home for the slimserver is APE, but I'd like to convert to FLAC for foward/rewind capabilities except FLAC is roughly 5%-10% less efficient. I doubt I'll ever see native APE format. I think the final days for lossy formats are numbered, but there still is viability for the near term. Also, when online retailers start offering lossless audio content, the days of CDs will be over too. -- verbatone ------------------------------------------------------------------------ verbatone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3556 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18357 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
