At 16.57 10/09/2002, you wrote: >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!
Probably you don't have very good "earing equipment". NEVER reencode from a compressed file. You'd only add artifacts. Ok, ogg's artifacts are very difficult to notice, but they are there. Whether you can't ear them or not it's a different matter. This is what ogg's creators say and what it's almost obvious. Olaf <olaf@ kjws.com> for every kind of mail, except spam! :-)
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