[plug] Prefered Music Format

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On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:53:39 +0800, Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 November 2004 17:23, Timothy White wrote:
> > I converted a CD worth of MP3's to OGG and discovered that
> > every single song increased in size (20-30% increase)
> 
> Re-rip them or convert from the WAVs/CDDAs if you have them.
> 
> Ogg will generally come out smaller for the same settings, and
> re-ripping them will retain top quality as well as shrinking them,
> where converting between lossy formats buys you the worst of both
> worlds (worst quality, worst compression).
> 
I concur.. 
I use mostly ogg format (ripped directly from CD), I can use a higher
bit rate and get a better quality sound and STILL have my files
smaller than MP3...

Next stop is to buy an iRiver MP3 player, as they're the only brand
players that will play ogg format.. :-/

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