[plug] Prefered Music Format

[Jeffrey Lim]

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:30:28 +0800, Adam Hewitt <ahewitt at iinet.net.au> 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. 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.
> 

just as a note, vbr is the standard way of encoding - although it is
possible to specify cbr as well (+ various other options controlling
bitrate) - see 'man oggenc' (if u have the vorbis tools installed) for
more info.

-jf