On 14/04/10 12:39, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi Guys > > I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music stored > in WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not possible > to copy many of these huge files to a portable player, so they need to > be compressed. After much experimentation I've concluded that OGG and > WMA are both better formats for sound quality than MP3 at a given bit > rate. The trouble is that neither of my portable players will play OGG, > so it has to be WMA.
Actually when I was doing some broadcast training I was shown some results of some tests of audio quality, WMA came out the worst. I believe the best was ATRAC as used on Minidisc (or those Sony Network Walkmans). When you were doing tests, what parameters did you use? Did you use a constant bit rate (say 192kbit/sec) or a variable bit rate with joint stereo? Anyway, back to encoding in WMA... I did a quick Google search and found this... http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t52493.html It seems the command line is as follows: ffmpeg -i test.wav -acodec wmav2 -ab 128 test.wma Can't say if it works though, I tend to use MP3, OGG and FLAC myself. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
