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Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test
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!"
The WorldLingo Translation seems to be better than babelfish because of the option to do content specific translation...
Compare the different translations of the same text...
BabelFish: "RealAudio Surround, the fire-new Windows Media 9 beta"
WorldLingo: (using Computer, Data Processing as the subject) "RealAudio Surround, the fire-new Windows Media 9 beta"
You can also do your own translation here.
doesn't mean people are going to use it. MP3s are pretty dug in. I've been hearing about Ogg Vorbis on SlashDot for quite a while now. Maybe I live under a rock or something, but I've never actually heard anything encoded with Ogg Vorbis.
It may be better, it may have better compression, but the fact is, people seem pretty satisfied with MP3 and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
If you asked most people in the know, OS/2 was a much better OS than Windows for a long time, and it was backed up by a major player (major player shrewd marketer). But it never took.
That happens a lot in this industry. Linux is more stable than Windows, but you don't see it on the desktop. Borland had the best development tools, but look at them...
My point is, Ogg can be twice as good, but unless there's a really compelling reason (besides better sound and better compression), I don't see the masses making the change. What kind of compelling reason? I don't know. Maybe if MP3s somehow become "digitally protected" or something.