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Non-MP3 Codecs?
Vanth Dreadstar asks: "While
MP3 is okay, I have begun researching other codecs that would be
suitable for my home music use. Lossy codecs such as Ogg
Vorbis, AAC,
and MPC all seem to have promise, not to mention the lossless codecs
such as Shorten
(otherwise known as .SHN),
LPAC, and FLAC.
I would like to know what non-MP3 codecs people are using out there,
and why."
I'm using .nap because Napster is going to come back! Just you wait!
Whatever it is that comes on these shiny round things I get from the music store...that's the one I use.
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HD's are cheap, hell save them as XML.
I'd like to know if they are using them.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
Because I have to quit this filthy .mp3 habit. I need the music industry to help me overcome my addiction to free music, so with digital content controls I won't be tempted to download gigabyte upon gigabyte of free music. I won't have to continue working this extra part-time job to support my purchases of extra hard drive space.
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To a geek. :) "MP3" has that "modern-day acronym sound" to it, like PDA, IM or IPO. Ogg just sounds like a character from Lord of the Rings (which, last I checked, very few "mainstream" people found "cool" -- just "majestic").
I like midi. But I've heard on this new thing called mod, it takes samples and tone shifts them to recreate the song! Pretty cool, like midi but better!
in the mean time - I can't stand mp3s, ogg might be the way for me to go now.
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No, it's even worse!
(1-2 k of headers and track metadata deleted)
<BYTE>
<BIT>1</BIT>
<BIT>0</BIT>
<BIT>0</BIT>
<BIT>1</BIT>
<BIT>1</BIT>
<BIT>1</BIT>
<BIT>0</BIT>
<BIT>0</BIT>
</BYTE>
Heh if i had mod points i would totally bump this up. MS paid musicians to say WMA sounded better than mp3 when wma first came out.
:)
I remember hearing that one musician messed up his line and accidentally said "This MP3 track sounds much better than the WMA track" instead of the intended line.
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It gets 99.99% compression. I think it's termed "lossy" compression.
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>> Ogg Vorbis...
>> is the *best* lossy audio codec I've yet seen.
I know I can sometimes discern what's on TV with my eyes closed by listening to the horizontal deflection, but I wasn't aware you could judge an audio compression codec based on its appearance.
Is Vorbis more curvaceous than the other codecs? Does it represent the visible spectrum more completely? Does it invoke feelings within you?
Umm... where the heck did you get the idea Compact Disc audio is analog? It is digital, silly.
Anyways, VQF has sadly gone the route of the dinosaur.
Hey, don't forget the solid platinum, gold coated, $200/ft., sextuple-shielded, interconnects with hand-woven wombat hair sheathing.
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to buy tickets to live performances? As in, direct audio-- straight from the instrument to your ears (and in some cases through an amplification system). :)
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