[plug] Prefered Music Format

[Adam Hewitt]

This may be true if you are encoding using a static bit rate, however 
ogg is a variable bit rate codec and it does a better job of determining 
which sections of the track it can reduce the bit rate without 
noticeable sound quality degradation. Hence the reason why it is stupid 
to encode mp3 into ogg, because you will end up dropping the quality in 
different parts of the track for each encoding and the end result will 
be awful.

Adam.

Brad Campbell wrote:

> Alex Nordstrom wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 2 Dec 2004 17:50, Brad Campbell wrote:
>>
>>> I said nothing at all about the sample rate. 160kbps means 20480
>>> bytes per second.
>>
>>
>>
>> Actually, it means 20,000 bytes per second, assuming 8-bit bytes. k 
>> is an SI prefix, not a binary prefix, and though there is some 
>> confusion between the two in some contexts, in the context of bit 
>> rates, like clock rates (and consequently bus transfer rates), SI 
>> prefixes are always used.
>>
>> Apart from that, you're entirely correct as far as I can tell.
>>
>
> I knew I should have just used handwaving and vague references rather 
> than putting figures down :p)
>
> Ta for the correction.
>