On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ron Bouwhuis wrote: > I spent time this weekend ripping my CDs to OGG > format. Sound quality is extraordinary and files are > smaller than MP3. Just need those tiny pocket players > to support the format and MP3 would be dead. > > Ron.
I agree 152% with you here. I have everything as ogg on my computer now. I use giFT for downloading (it's like Kazaa, but console and of course for Linux) where there are quite a few ogg's to be found. Anything I cannot find in ogg format is usually to be found in a high MP3 bitrate, which I convert to oggs. Many users are againt this as it's supposed to reduce quality even more, but I strongly dissagree with that. If I take a 192kb/s MP3, and re-encode it to +-128kb/s ogg (Quality 4) it sounds just the same, no matter if I play it though the computer speakers, the expensve headphones I have attached to the computer, or the sterio that the computer is connected to! >From what I have seen there are a couple of players around there that can play ogg ;-) ... just I can't remember which :-/ It looked quite cool when I saw it (I believe though a /.org article), but it was a bit $$$ for my price-range :-) Ogg has come a long way so far. The only disadvantage I can find now is that for example in XMMS, bass, trebel and so on can be set with the equalizer, but this is only for MP3's, and OGG's don't seem to work with this. I don't have a problem with the ogg sound though, as it sounds a lot more solid than MP3, but this option would be nice to have ;-) I wrote a bash script once which I still use to convert MP3's to ogg, and so if you are a person who always has full tags in the MP3's everything except for Comment get's taken accross to to the created ogg. You can download it at http://tuxpower.f2g.net/mp3conv.php if you are interested. Greetings Ralph -- Homepage: http://tuxpower.f2g.net/
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