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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Better than the fish... by OneFix · 2002-09-08 23:28 · Score: 2, Redundant

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.