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Ogg Vorbis RC3 Released

Posted by timothy on from the need-more-hardware-players dept.

xercist writes: "Let's start 2002 off with some good news! The long awaited RC3 release of the Ogg project's Vorbis codec is now out. Major changes include much improvement in the quality to bitrate ratio, ability to specify a hard bitrate min/max to the encoder (good for streaming), and an entirely new bitrate management engine which can emulate CBR, do constrained bitrates, and will accept quality settings via the -q flag from 0 through 10 in .00000001 increments (currently only tuned for 44.1 KHz modes). Vorbis has kicked MP3's, WMA's, and Real's asses for a long time now, hopefully this release will change the minds of anyone yet undecided. Download RC3, then show your appreciation for all their hard work and dedication by making a donation to support the project."

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  1. First post of the new year by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST OF THE NEW YEAR.

  2. hmmm by c8to · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    hmmm

  3. Re:An Ode to Persian Females by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thats breathtaking. I'm happy to see that there is still a little bit of culture on Slashdot

  4. Re:wow by Uller-RM · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Although it's a painfully obvious troll, this one line just truly made me belly-laugh for the first time in 2002:

    "real professional formats like MP3"

    MP3, quite probably the most famous high-range-butchering format in existence, the whole design revolving around stripping out all but the very roughest shape of the sound... called a real professional format?

    A truely masterful troll would have pointed out that real professionals work in uncompressed 44.1 (or 48 or 96) kHz PCM, occasionally with some extra tracking/synching information - and not only would you have gotten a few bites about the file size differences from the non-audiophiles, you might have even gotten an Insightful mod at the same time for pointing it out ;)

  5. Re:This won't change much... by AdamJ · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    -1 Flamebait?

    How I wish my mod points hadn't expired earlier today. . .

  6. oh please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    real true audiophiles, not these geek toy collector wannabes, know vinyl is the only way to go. No matter what you do changing music into 1s and 0s and changing it back into sound later will never sound as good.

    But a expensive record player isn't as sexy as some frivolous tech toy...

  7. DirectShow Filters would be nice by Tomji · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But thats for MS and therefore evil ;(

  8. Re:Now THAT's an open standards site! by thelexx · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    A website I created recently used PNG for about three days until clients started complaining that the graphics wouldn't display. Being a corporate site, telling them to get a newer browser wouldn't work. They'd sooner go to our competitors pages.

    LEXX

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  9. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You really deserve a penis-bird but I don't have the energy to cut and paste it right now.

  10. Re:Double Blind Listening Tests... Here! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    > ff123 from the r3mix.net/hydrogenaudio.org forums is conducting automated ABX double blind tests comparing Vorbis, mp3 (several encoders), AAC, WMA and MPC.

    Wonder what monolingual English speakers make of that sentence.

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  11. Re:Double Blind Listening Tests... Here! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    [Your sig]
    The court ruled it legal to fuck the voters by running out the clock, and demonstrated how to do it.

    What are you talking about, man?

  12. Re:An Ode to Persian Females by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh God, I can't believe you're back. Kill yourself.

    --Vision, aka Sporkraper (not really back)

  13. What we really need: by rseuhs · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    A simple standalone (read: CLI) converter that also converts MP3-tags correctly.

    Last time I checked (which is a couple of weeks ago, I admit) I found nothing like that.

  14. Re:MP3 vs. OGG by strangemoose · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I did. :)...waaaaiiiitttt... I was never in the asylum...

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  15. Don't want to Ogg you on too much, but... by leonbrooks · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    ...all yolking aside, could a collection of ova within a single Ogg file be called a roe? If so, I can imagine a music shop name white now: ``Unhygenix, Oggmonger.''

    (Apologies to Goscinny and Underzo)

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