dcote;270081 Wrote: > hey phil, of course you can! :-) > > why do i use vorbis? > 1. because i can. the main reason i bought the squeezeboxes is because > the feature list says they play vorbis natively. > 2. i am too lazy to encode my songs twice - lossless for at home and > lossy for on the road. maintaining every track twice is a PITA. > 3. some friends of mine and i have ABXed the vorbis files i use > (preferrably gtune3b2 encoded @ q6) vs. wav/flac. we could not reliably > find differences. as a matter of fact, when we tried to find the version > that subjectively sounded best (not which was the original!), the gtune > encoded vorbis came out ahead! no joke. we were astounded ourselves. > 4. mp3 needs a lot more bits to sound as good, which we also found by > ABXing. i would need some HQ LAME @ 256 kbit VBR to compete with vorbis > @ q6, which is still ~30% smaller. > 5. vorbis is patent-free. i resent the fact that some corporation could > nail me for encoding my music in their proprietary format. > 6. my portable player supports vorbis, too. so does my GF's ipod, after > we installed rockbox on it. > 7. my server is completely full of hard disks with no further expansion > room. flac would instantly increase my library's size from ~35GB to > ~200GB. > 8. i use my WLAN for other things sich as mpeg4 playback as well - i > need the bandwidth.
Ah - I see. All perfectly reasonable. It does seem like you (or rather the SB/SS setup) has an issue with this format that doesn't affect the other formats. Sorry I can't be of any help. Phil -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal...SB3+Stontronics PSU - Altmann JISCO/UPCI - TACT RCS 2.2X with Good Vibrations S/W - MF X-DAC V3/X-PSU/X-10 buffer (Audiocomm full mods)- Linn 5103 - Linn Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Townsend Supertweeters, Kimber & Chord cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43298 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
