Just search Slashdot for discussions on Ogg. You will find more opinions than you will ever care to read on this subject.
Personally, I rip all my CD's to FLAC and store them on my hard drive. If I ever run into a situation where I need Vorbis or whatever, I will encode from there. Mike On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 02:10:41PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > Ok, here's my story: I've been a long-time mp3 user, but I've been too > paranoid to make the switch over to ogg. I just ripped another CD the > other day (with grip, of course--man, I miss CDex, though. I think it's a > way better program than grip, IM(NS)HO) and, of course, it went straight > to mp3. > > So I figure I just need a healthy push from the uug crowd. Here are some > of my worries. > > a) is the quality really that better? can I really tell a difference? Or > is it simply a matter of file size? > > b) I know that compatiblity is still an issue. Do you ogg users ever run > into problems trying to burn a CD for an mp3 player, or put music on a > portable player, and end up having to convert your oggs to mp3s? > > c) I keep worrying that since ogg is/was kind of "new", that it will > change and then I'll have to go and reconvert all my CDs again with the > "newer, better!" ogg version. Has ogg actually changed versions? How do > the versions compare? If you had old stuff encoded with the original > version of the encoder, does the newer stuff sound any better? I guess I'm > just kind of clueless about how this codec stuff works in general. > > > Anybody care to tell their "conversion story" from mp3 to ogg? mp3 is just > so nice and comfortable and familiar ... comfortable good, change bad ... > > ~ ross > > > -- > > This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. > > On 6 Oct 2003, Corey Edwards wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 08:47, Mark Gardner wrote: > > > Seeing how this is a list for discovery and learning. What is ogg? > > > > It's a multimedia container similar to avi. What people mostly use is > > Ogg Vorbis which is the audio codec, much like MP3. It is better than > > mp3 for many reasons. > > > > First, it's free of silly patents. The specification is in the public > > domain, the floating point implementation is under a BSD license and the > > utilities are GPL. > > > > Second, it uses much better acoustical models than the older original > > mp3 (mp3 pro, aac, and other newer codecs compare very well with > > vorbis). > > > > Thirdly, it is variable bit rate (VBR) so you don't waste bits encoding > > blank space and it can bump but the bit rate when a really complex > > section presents itself. Overall it uses less space for better quality > > than mp3. > > > > Fourthly, it can be "peeled", meaning you can stream multiple bit rate > > streams from the same high rate source. For example, you run an internet > > radio station with 128k, 64k, 32k, and 16k streams. With mp3, you must > > encode 4 different streams from the same source. But with vorbis, you > > can encode the 128 and peel the extra bits off the stream for each of > > the lower rate streams. Saves tons of CPU time. > > > > Find more at www.vorbis.com > > > > Corey > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .__________________________________________________________________. Michael A. Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Security Engineer, IBM Linux Technology Center GnuPG Fingerprint: 05B5 08A8 713A 64C1 D35D 2371 2D3C FDDA 3EB6 601D Fight mandatory .signature truncation! Call
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