Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >MPEG-3 can be fairly lossy or fairly tight, depends what bit rate you >use in rendering it ... much like JPEG. 196Kbps MP3s are not very >lossy at all.
196 kbps files are supposedly the equal of broadcast FM stereo radio. You can got to even higher bit rates for even better quality and *variable* bit rate bor optimal file size/quality. >That said, there are MPEG-4 (m4p files) encoded with >AAC that are much smaller and have lower losses, and there are >several lossless compression algorithms too, all of which get called >"MP3s" as they are all downloaded from the same sites. FLAC (free lossless audio compression) seems to be the most popular, though I think you can't beat Ogg Vorbis for simply having a great name :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
