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Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test

Posted by Hemos on from the rhyming-is-fun dept.

Nice2Cats writes "The Ogg Vorbis format came out far ahead of MP3, MP3Pro, RealAudio Surround, and Windows Media 9 Beta in a comparison of different audio formats by Germany's respected computer magazine c't. More than 6,000 people took part in the test. Heise says Ogg's dominance was most pronounced with 64 kBit/sec samples; the full magazine article (out on Monday) mentions that in pre-tests, some people actually mistook the 128 kBit/sec Ogg samples for the uncoded version. Let's hear it for those strangely named open source file formats!"

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  1. Re:I actually scored the 64kbps sample above.. by CoolVibe · · Score: 3, Funny
    Didn't you know? Ogg encodes ueber secret subliminal messages into the encoded files that say "dig this audio format.... dig this audio format..." all over.

    That would explain it...

    (for the humor impaired: yes that was intended to be funny. My music collection is about 35% ogg. I love ogg)

  2. Perhaps the 64 kbit format could be called... by Omnifarious · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps the 64 kbit format could be called a hard-boiled ogg.

    • 64kbit - hard boild ogg
    • 128kbit - over hard ogg
    • 160kbit - over easy ogg
    • 192kbit - sunny side up ogg
    • 256kbit - poached ogg
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  3. Re:Time To Switch by ssyladin · · Score: 3, Funny

    What? Rip from CD? Re-rip? Heck, boy, I just download them from WinMX, Kazaa, DirectConnect, etc. Tphffft - buy a CD. I'm the bastard the RIAA is trying to get!!!

  4. Re:Has anyone ever considered... by Nimey · · Score: 2, Funny

    "MP3" isn't necessarily a good name either.
    Used to be, when someone mentioned them, I thought they were talking about some kind of German machine-pistol, like the MP5.

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  5. It's you. by DrSkwid · · Score: 3, Funny

    but don't be downhearted.

    Like running, listening is a skill that varies from person to person and can be improved with practice.

    I've worked in a recording studio through which many many people have been and I've witnessed the variation first hand.
    engineer : "Which do you prefer, this... or this?"
    client : "Okay, play the second one now."

    What makes me smile is that when I was a lad we were satisfied copying records to tape by playing the record loud and utilising the condenser mike on the tape recorder. Good quality was when there wasn't the sound of someone walking in the room followed by "your tea's ready, oh. what are you doing?" "shhhh mum, we're taping" on it.

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  6. Re:The problem by rseuhs · · Score: 3, Funny
    To get the full benefit from Ogg, you need to re-encode everything. That is what I'm talking about.

    You don't need to reencode anything. This is completely optional. Your mp3s don't stop working when you have an ogg on your harddisk. (Believe me, I tried it.)

    Geeez.

  7. Re:What MP3 artifacts sound like by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your best bet is to simply turn up the volume of your mp3 player, eventually your gradual hearing loss will mask this unpleasant artifact noise.

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