Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2005-01-09 Thread Matthew Boyer
Does it support .ape [it's like an mp3 but with .wav sound quality]? - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. Pc-audio@pc-audio.org Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:29 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 You can play these files

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2005-01-03 Thread Matthew Boyer
: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 As far as I can tell, vorbis rocks compared to mp3 files. That's when you put vorbis at a 128 bitrate. Of course, I don't mind having mp3 files at 320 but at 128 ogg vorbis files sound great. Although nothing compares to a wave file. Denny

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Shields
for the computer or are there portable players that can play this format? Thanks Shannon - Original Message - From: Denny Daughters [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 7:54 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 As far as I

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-12 Thread Denny Daughters
Kevin and list, I've been doing some testing with the vorbis versus mp3 conversion last night. With mp3s, you can go down to 96kbps and you start to hear the compression. Knock it down to 80 and it sounds really compressed. With Ogg-vorbis, you can knock it down to 80kbps and start to hear

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-12 Thread russell Bourgoin
Hi Listers, The iriver hard drive based juke box plays og files. Rusty Hi Shannon and list, I know for sure that winamp will read the ogg-vorbis files, I don't know about any portable players. Denny ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines,

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-12 Thread Gary Wood
Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 Hey, how does Vorbis compare in sound quality to MP3? And what kind of DVD player is this for $59. I'm curious. Take care, Kevin On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:29:43 +1100 Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can play these files on the computer with Winamp and I

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-12 Thread Kevin Lloyd
be a minor consideration. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Dane Trethowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:03 PM Subject: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Dane Trethowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greetings! This topic has probably been thrashed to absolute hell. What are peoples thoughts on these 2 compression methods, does one have any advantages over the other? I've never played with Vorbis. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 8.1

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Aymeric Vildieu
Vorbis is definitely far better than mp3 : First on the philosophical level : it is an open-source standard, so no copyrights involved. 2 : the soundquality is far better than mp3 and allows a bigher sampling rate. A 160kbps ogg will sound clearer than a 320kbps mp3. I really encourage you to

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Bruce Toews
The following are my personal opinions. The best way to come to a conclusion is to check it out yourself. 1. I find that Vorbis is a considerably better format. The file size to quality ratio is considerably more favorable. The fact that Vorbis is open source works very much in its favor. As I

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Dane Trethowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What's around to encode it, I mean are their any dll files that I can run from EAC or something like that? At 08:58 AM 11/12/2004, you wrote: Vorbis is definitely far better than mp3 : First on the philosophical level : it is an open-source standard,

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Sun Sparkle
what about mp4? how dow this compair to the other two? - Original Message - From: Aymeric Vildieu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 3:58 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 Vorbis is definitely far

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread shannon work
11, 2004 7:54 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 As far as I can tell, vorbis rocks compared to mp3 files. That's when you put vorbis at a 128 bitrate. Of course, I don't mind having mp3 files at 320 but at 128 ogg vorbis files sound great. Although nothing compares to a wave file

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Denny Daughters
Hi Shannon and list, I know for sure that winamp will read the ogg-vorbis files, I don't know about any portable players. Denny ___ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Bruce Toews
There are some portables that play Vorbis. They're quite few and far between. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net For the best oldies anywhere visit http://www.treasureislandoldies.com

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread rob
Rather than just say that there are players, why don't you tell us the names of those players? - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:34 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Bruce Toews
just say that there are players, why don't you tell us the names of those players? - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:34 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 There are some portables

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Dane Trethowan
, 2004 7:54 PM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 As far as I can tell, vorbis rocks compared to mp3 files. That's when you put vorbis at a 128 bitrate. Of course, I don't mind having mp3 files at 320 but at 128 ogg vorbis files sound great. Although nothing compares to a wave file. Denny

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Dane Trethowan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Another thought! I know someone who has an IRiver, I know that these amazing pieces of equipment will play Vorbis and... well... just about any other format you care to mention if you're prepared to load the software. At 03:34 PM 11/12/2004, you wrote:

Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3

2004-11-11 Thread Gary Wood
I wonder if any DVD player plays og vorvis files? - Original Message - From: Bruce Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PC audio discussion list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 12:33 AM Subject: Re: VORBIS COMPARED TO MP3 Because I don't know what they are. Bruce -- Bruce