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Who'll Be Using Ogg Vorbis Instead Of MP3?
An anonymous reader asks: "Ogg Vorbis is hitting stable and hopefully will release 1.0 soon. But I'm wondering, who is going to use it? MP3 is very popular on the net and beyond, but it's based on patents. Software patents aren't legal in Europe, but are in other parts of the world. Is Ogg Vorbis making a chance to become the next music-standard for the net and beyond. This mainly because there are no patents broken by this standard. Will it be a standard for the world or one for the books?"
Never having bothered to do it before with MP3, I've recently started ripping my CD collection to .ogg files, and the quality is good to my (tin) ears. Someone with an entrepreneurial bent needs to sell a dedicated hardware player that takes CD-Rs, so I can play back 10 hours of books on tape from a single disk. I'm not the only one slow on the MP3 curve, basically starting from scratch with Vorbis, am I?
Please don't anyone use this. Re-rip from the original. Double encoding with 2 lossy formats is going to give you shit quality. I tried converting a 160kbps mp3 to see what it would sound like, and it sounded like hell, lots of clicks and pops.
I've re encoded my entire cd collection into Ogg format. It took awhile, but I just used grip and popped another disc in every time I sat down or walked by my computer. Ogg encoding is slow. But, if you're encoding your stuff to actually archive it, wouldn't you want the best quality possible since you'll probably be listening to it for years down the road?
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of Ogg Vorbis. It's enough to make you foam at the mouth and fall over backwards. Is he foaming at the mouth to fall over backwards or falling over backwards to foam at the mouth? Tonight's 'Spectrum' examines the whole question of frothing and falling, coughing and calling, screaming and bawling, walling and stalling, brawling and mauling, falling and hauling, trawling and squalling, and zalling. Zalling. Is there even a word zalling? If there is what does it mean? If there isn't what does it mean? Perhaps both, maybe neither. What do I mean by the word 'mean'? What do I mean by the word 'word'? What do I mean by 'what do I mean'? What do I mean by 'do' and what do I do by 'mean'? And what do I do by do by do and what do I mean by wasting your time like this? Good night.
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I think that ogg vorbis will have a good chance of becoming a new standard, as long as there are really good (linux and windows based) utilities available, especially all-in-one rip/cddb/encode programs. Most people don't want to have to go through the process of ripping to raw audio (wav, etc), converting, and renaming the files. It's just too much effort.
I plan on converting my 200+ CD collection to ogg vorbis, but I would like to figure out how to do this with as little interaction as possible. In other words, I just want to put the cd in the tray, and let it work. Otherwise, the conversion process will take too much of my free time.