On 17. August 2005 at 10:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 08:57 am, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > > On 8/13/05, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:05 pm, Rishi wrote: > > > > Just curious. Any reasons why the 'lame' package is not included in > > > > the debian package repository? > > > > > > Thanks to BMG Music, all MP3 encoders are non-free. Try a > > > patent-unencumbered format like Ogg Vorbis instead. > > > > How about flac? Is there any comparisson between flac and Ogg in > > terms of compresion and sound quality? > > Well, FLAC aims to be lossless, so I would estimate compression > to be practically nil (I could be wrong; don't know about > FLAC). Haven't heard or seen comparisons between the two > formats. My "real life" tests tell me FLAC compresses to better than 50% of a .wav ripped from a digitally recorded (DDD) "classical" music CD. That is, the file size is effectively halved. The ratio can get as good as 1/3 of the file. "Remastered" analog recordings (AAD or ADD) fare slightly worse. Not as good as Vorbis or MP3, where you typically get 1/10th compression. But for archiving my audio CDs, there's simply no substitute. It's a different matter if I'm looking to have the music available in a "portable" format. Then I settle for Ogg Vorbis. > I do know the odds of finding a portable Ogg Vorbis player is > slightly better than that of finding a portable FLAC player, > though. More like orders of magnitude better. I now see Ogg Vorbis players from non-niche manufacturers like Samsung (which manufactures everything from TVs to washing machines). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]