[plug] Prefered Music Format

[Michael Collard]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 20:04 +0800, Jeffrey Lim wrote:
> 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.

While on the topic, OGGs do sound much better than most MP3s, however
every now and then I come across an MP3 that actually does sound pretty
good, even at 128K. I know its not LAME doing the encoding, I cant tell
that encoder's marks anywhere. Anyone know of other MP3 encoders that
are bit better?

Regards
Michael Collard