[plug] Prefered Music Format

[Matt Carlsen]

i prefer ogg from a double blind test someone had put on the net a while 
ago,
so now all my cds are ripped in ogg, quality @ 6 = to 192vbr mp3
incidentally i just bought my mother an "mp3 player" for christmas
(shes actually quite computer literate) the iriver H320, and i tell ya, 
it is the best i could find.
colour screen, plays ogg, mp3, wma, wav.
can connect a digital camera to it without a computer and download the 
pictures
on to view and save, ( good since she has a 5 megapixal camera, and they 
dont store that many pics).
has radio reception, can record music on the line-in straight to mp3,
and now since two or three weeks ago can play a limited xvid video
with new firmware.
perfect for the open source warrior!
got it for $599 at mstation.com.au
they claim it is on special down from 799
oh and dont get the american version s it doesnt have the usb host function

http://iriver.com/product/info.asp?p_name=H320


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 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].
>
> 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? I can't hear any 
> quality differences.
>
> Tim
> [1] Variable Bit Rate
> [2] Fixed Bit Rate