[plug] Prefered Music Format

[hooker at iinet.net.au]

Quoting Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au>:

> Senectus . wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> 
> How is that possible? "I can use a higher bit rate ... and STILL have my
> files smaller.."?
> 
> The file size is entirely dependant on the bit rate! No matter what the
> encoding, 3 minutes of 
> 160kbps is still 3 minutes of 160kbps.

The space required depends on the codec more than the sample rate. OGG manages 
to compress better than MP3.

Hooker