What's up with this OGG standard? Is it better than WMA or MP3??

[Pepsi90919]

monkey's audio 0wnz

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

A. I use Monkey's Audio for all my rips, personally.

B. Ogg Vorbis smacks the crap out of every other audio compression technology available today (MP3, WMA, ___) at low bitrates (128 and below). MPC would be a better choice for higher bitrates (200+)

C. MP3 sucks. Deal with it.

 

[murphy55d]

I have a couple OGG files and their mp3 countparts... no difference that I can hear, though I am certainly no audiophile.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

by the way




IT'S CALLED VORBIS, DAMNIT. :frown:

 

[mpitts]

Originally posted by: thawolfman

Originally posted by: Skoorb
It's funny. Everyonce in a while a new "better than MP3" format comes out and dies

hehe VQF anyone?

Exactly.

 

[Confused]

I can easily tell a difference between a 160kbps VBR MP3, and a 160kbps Vorbis file (happy NuclearFusi0n )

And compared to those, 128kbps CBR MP3 sounds totally crappy!


Confused

 

[Derango]

OGG is actually better. It produces better sounding files at lower bitrates than MP3 does. The difference between the two formats grows even wider once you get down to the really low bitrates. a 32kbps ogg stream sounds VERY good compared to a 32kbps mp3 stream

Its also going to have a couple of cool features like on the fly bitrate reduction, IIRC so a ogg stream can lower its bitrate to you if your connection's not fast enough. Dunno what's going on with that though, haven't heard much about it for a while.

The one downside to ogg: Very few people use it.

 

[dc]

haha, i think i have a few vqf files somewhere on my hd.

 

[Sunner]

I only use OGG/Vorbis when I rip my CD's these days, it definately sounds better than mp3's at non obscene bitrates.

And as has been mentioned, it has more features, that may just come in handy in the future

Oh and as for burning on the fly to CD's, Ahead(makers of Nero) will be releasing documentation about how to make plugins to Nero, which will allow whoever feels like it to make a plugin to do on the fly Vorbis->CD burning.

 

[skace]

...monkey's audio? Oooh ooh aah aahh eeeee eeeeee?