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Ryan

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Ogg Vorbis has been around for a while now, but it has yet to find any real mainstream support. While I do support better music formats, it will be hard to topple MP3.

Until there is some kind of mainstream support for different formats, I'm still gonna be using MP3 :)
 
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churchdoesmatter

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well, mp3 is going to die out and mp4 will be the next generation, so vorbis might have some compeittion with the mp4 format.. it was the same for divx, and now look at them! their format is popular now. im sure vorbis could achieve the same :)
 
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pulse8

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Originally posted by: pokemonlover
well, mp3 is going to die out and mp4 will be the next generation, so vorbis might have some compeittion with the mp4 format.. it was the same for divx, and now look at them! their format is popular now. im sure vorbis could achieve the same :)
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I have 4,182 mp3s. I'm not going to switch formats every time a new one comes out. :)

mp3 works fine for me, so I think I'll stick with that until something lossless comes out.
 
silverpig

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I'm trying to test out dolby AAC (mp4)

Liquidplayer apparently encodes and decodes AAC, but I can't get it to install on this computer.
 
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Originally posted by: yakko
I will stick with my MP3 format for now.
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Same thing here. I don't see a single reason to adopt other formats. I guess the less formats there are, the better. Less headaches for me, he-he...
 
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amnesiac

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Considering that either my audio equipment or my ears lack the high fidelity necessary to distinguish the minute differences between CD quality and 192kbps MP3s, I'll stick with with what I have now. Anything higher quality is lost on me or my stereo system. I mean, I went a couple years with listening to MP3s at 128kbps and I didn't even realize there was that much loss; I don't see how "lossless" formats will affect me personally.

File size is not an issue either, I still have 60GB left on my drive after ALL my MP3s and software.
 
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Originally posted by: yakko
I will stick with my MP3 format for now.
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A good reason to stick with anything: it's popular. It doesn't matter whether it's good or not just as long as other people use it as well.
Why don't people stick with WinME as an OS. Sure, it might be a little bloated and unreliable too but millions of other people still use it and at least some of them (I guess) even like it.

Originally posted by: pulse8
mp3 works fine for me, so I think I'll stick with that until something lossless comes out.
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There are a lot of lossless formats around, the only real drawback with them is the large filesize (~50-60% of the original - 700-800 kbps, it isn't likely get much smaller than that even with new compression techniques). If you want a good (=better sound than MP3 with the same size) lossy format there are also a few of them to choose from.

 
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pulse8

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There are a lot of lossless formats around, the only real drawback with them is the large filesize (~50-60% of the original - 700-800 kbps, it isn't likely get much smaller than that even with new compression techniques). If you want a good (=better sound than MP3 with the same size) lossy format there are also a few of them to choose from.
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I know. I download a lot of live shows in SHN format. It's a good format, just really large. So basically, I'm waiting for hard drives to get much much bigger and hopefully for some kind of lossless format to become more popular than now.
 
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Originally posted by: pokemonlover
well, mp3 is going to die out and mp4 will be the next generation, so vorbis might have some compeittion with the mp4 format.. it was the same for divx, and now look at them! their format is popular now. im sure vorbis could achieve the same :)
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What is 'mp4'? Are you talking about MPEG 4, the video compression format? Divx is a MPEG 4 codec. One of many, as a matter of fact.

MP3 was made in 1988. I think it's time to move on to something new. Ogg Vorbis is a state-of-the-art, open-source, completely free audio codec. That means companies like Fraunhofer can't charge you to use it. Many games are moving over to Vorbis because they are paying no licensing fees.

Until there is some kind of mainstream support for different formats, I'm still gonna be using MP3
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There is mainstream support for Vorbis. Winamp plays .ogg files.
 
UNCjigga

UNCjigga

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d00d URe S00 l337!!! I hEArD thErE Is A nEw mP3 eNCoDeR cALLeD L4mE!!! iTs bRaND n3w aNd iT SouNDz pR33ty g00d!!! iT jUsT cAM3 oUt LikE 3 w33kZ AgO! iTz s0 1337!!!
 
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Derango

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I'm switching all of my ripped CDs to ogg vorbis in large music reorganization project. However, I'm leaving all the MP3s where I don't actually have the CD for them alone...since there's no point on converting an MP3 to an ogg...you end up loosing quality twice (CD -> MP3 -> Ogg, since mp3 and ogg as both lossy formats, you loose a little each time you re-encode)
 
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MaxDSP

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Originally posted by: pokemonlover
well, mp3 is going to die out and mp4 will be the next generation, so vorbis might have some compeittion with the mp4 format.. it was the same for divx, and now look at them! their format is popular now. im sure vorbis could achieve the same :)
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The DivX that is popular now is NOT the same Divx bomb that was backed by Circuit City and their like. DivX is a codec as it's used now, not a 'pay-per view DVD" scam

In case anyone was confused...:D
 
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