[plug] Prefered Music Format

[Alex Nordstrom]

On Saturday, 27 Nov 2004 17:23, Timothy White wrote:
> I currently have lots of CD's ripped in MP3 format (from my Windoz
> days) I converted a CD worth of MP3's to OGG

http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#transcode

Summary: garbage in, garbage out.

> and discovered that every single song increased in size (20-30%
> increase) I used mp32ogg (Debian, mp32ogg=0.11-3) which gets its
> quality settings from the mp3, the ogg's appear to have VBR's[1]
> varying between 100 and 200 while the originals are all FBRs[2].

http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#sound

Summary: there are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

> What should I use then? I mainly listen to the music on my computer
> or jukebox with xmms, madplay, or mpg321. I can easily change over to
> ogg's but is the increased file size worth it?

Ogg Vorbis will give you smaller files for comparable quality, not 
larger (unless the quality is higher). This will not apply if the input 
is MP3 compressed.

You should encode as Ogg Vorbis when ripping. Existing MP3s are best 
kept as such.

> I can't hear any 
> quality differences.

http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#sound

Summary: you will if you don't transcode.

-- 
Alex Nordstrom
http://lx.n3.net/
Please do not CC me in followups; I am subscribed to plug.