What Audio Compression Technology you use?

I always use MP3... maybe there are better formats, but I'm just to lazy to switch. And my MP3CD-man only plays the MP3 format... so it is easier just to let it in MP3 format for me. I try to get all my songs atleast at 128KB/s quality.

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MP3, though all my songs are @ 320Kbits quality. They sound nice hehe.

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Since you don't care about file size, why not you use monkey's audio?

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To me, after 196Kbits, I don't see much difference. Like high volume.

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"Let Go." -Avril Lavigne

Correction: 192 kbps instead of 196 kbps

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Cool, it's even got the source. Me likes.

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What do you think about OGG, the lastest version gives the best sounding audio at very low 45 kbps nominal birate. Vorbis works with VBR very well. For any kind of audio, you can do with max. 128 kbps nominal birate. 45 to 64 kbps is very nice for rock tunes.

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OGG has quite good support. Winamp, Sonique, Musicmatch (may be) supports OGG. There is also DirectShow filter available that allows OGG vorbis playing in Windows Media Player. I tested it on WMP 6.4 and 7, it works. Doesn't work on WMP 9 beta, don't know about XP media player. Quick Time plug-in is also available. Works upto QT v5. And there is mny of CD rippers that supports OGG. IMO, CDex is the best among them. You can set tag of a OGG file from windows file property dialog using a program. There is also app. available for mass tagging vorbis files. The only thing I miss that is there's no CD burning app. that supports OGG. This is not a big problem since you can convert OGG files in WAV file using CDex. And many people prefer to burn audio CD from WAV file than MP3.

hehe, I was using WMA till last month. Now I have swithced to OGG.


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It depends. Most people I know when referring to music file only know mp3 (have no idea about wav or other stuff) so I dun want them to flip out. Though it is amusing to prove someone an idiot

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Monkey's audio will compress your WAV files upto 50% . WAV files compressed with MS ADPCM codec seems more practical to me. It can shrink file size to 25% of the original file. Though it's not theoritically lossless like monkey's audio, practically it sounds lossless.

Why not try OGG Vorbis? It gives outstanding sound quality at low birates like 45 kbps. I had to use max. 96 kbps to maintain quality. In case of MP3, it was 192 kbps.

By using OGG Vorbis instead of MP3, you can store about 35 to 50% more minutes of music in a 650 MB CD. And in case of HDD space, if you can save 1 GB in 3 GB, it's a big gain- regardless of disk capacity.

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Agree with you. There's no MP3 Encoder available better than Lame

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OGG is the best audio codec now. Its version 1.0 is a MP3 and WMA killer. OGG handles VBR very well. In gives outstanding sound quality in 45 kbps nominal birate compared to other codecs. In classical tunes, I had to use 64 to 96 kbps nominal birate. Further experiments may force me to use 112 or 128 kbps. For rock music, I have used 45 to 64 kbps. I haven't tested OGG enough with rock tunes. I am going to test it with some Phil Collins songs soon, from Disney's Tarzan animated film. I encoded this music before with WMA, MP3 and MP3 Pro. For WMA, it sounded unacceptable under 128 kbps, MP3 under 192 kbps and MP3 Pro under 96 kbps. For OGG, I think I may have to use a birate from 96 to 128 kbps. Anyway, its a common thing that rock tunes require less birate than classical tunes.

MP3 Pro is the only codec what is able to challenge OGG in terms of quality. In some cases, OGG and MP3 are same, sometimes OGG is betters and sometimes MP3 Pro is better. But OGG is much more compatible than MP3 pro. This is my reason for using OGG. For people who don't use warez things like me, their choice should be OGG. Because free MP3 Pro Encoder allows encoding only at 64 kbps.

I don't know a website that lets you listen to a file coded with different codec and different birates. They review codecs and give some "mark" based on their experience. I don't trust these reviews. I care only about the results of my personal experiments.

I don't have speedy internet connection (my connection type -- 33.6 kbps dial-up). So I can't let you listen to my selected experiment tunes. I hope to experiment with Phil Collins/Tarzan soon. I will post my experience here. I can also let you know my experience via e-mail, if you want. After testing with these tunes, I will be able to say I have nothing more to test with OGG.

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