01/28/2007 Sebastián wrote:
> I've been told that 64kbps .ogg files are as good as 128kbps .mp3 files. Is 
> that true?

I can't say that this is true. It is more like 80-85 kbit/s ogg sound like 128 
kbit/s mp3s. It also
depends on the audio material. A nice test are cymbals. There are also some bad 
mp3
encoders around. If you enable vbr with mp3 you can also gain some sound 
quality.

The big adavantage of ogg is at low bit rates. I am encoding my audio books 
about 18-20
kbit/s vbr, mostly in 22050 Hz samplerate and mono in ogg format. This sounds 
o.k. for me.
an alternative would be aac. I did some tests with the Nero AAC encoder
http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/Nero_Digital_Audio.html which also produces 
nice to
hear audiobooks at low (18-20 kbit/s) bitrates. I sometimes think even a little 
bit better at 16
kbit/s than ogg at the same. Unfortunatly Nero AAC produces .mp4 files which 
can not be
handelt by 770's audio player. You have to demux the audio stream out of the 
.mp4
container. I used mp4ui for it. Maybe I wouldn't miss ogg that much if we would 
have a nice
(free) aac batch converter. Any ideas?

-Klaus
--
 Klaus Rotter * klaus <at> rotters <dot> de * www.rotters.de

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