Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test

Posted by Hemos on Sunday September 8, 2002 @10:45PM 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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Perhaps the 64 kbit format could be called... by Omnifarious · 2002-09-08 23:26 · 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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Re:What MP3 artifacts sound like by nizo · 2002-09-09 05:52 · 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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