Re: [MP3 ENCODER] Ogg: mostly hype and a _lot_ to be done

[Istvan Varga]

Roel VdB wrote:

> too much. also, for the moment my mp3's, to be considered
> transparent, are about 170kbit/s average.  why are you aiming at

mp3 transparent at 170 kbps ? Try encoding signals like
    http://members.xoom.com/steve_0401/archive/samples/test1.zip
Lame will not be able to transparently encode the four short
noises at the beginning of the file, not even at 384 kbps.

Vorbis may be better in the future, although it needs
_lots_ of tuning yet.

> 130-150kbit?  be aware that on better Q systems you hear a difference,
> and imho it wouldn't be bad to get better quality at higher size.

Then why not use mp2 at 384k ? Or even some lossless format ?
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