[plug] Prefered (sic) Music Format

[James Devenish]

In message <41AF6D54.6040607 at iinet.net.au>
on Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:30:28AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> 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.

So, Brad is correct (a rate is a rate is a rate) but the original
statement was misleading:

In message <d12e5c904120118403dbf8caa at mail.gmail.com>
on Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 10:40:39AM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> 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...

It seems that "a higher bit rate" actually meant "variable bit rate
with a maximum bit rate in excess of some fixed bit rate".