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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!"
Its a well known fact that OGG appears to sound better because its adds 3 decibles to the volume over other formats. In blind listening tests, OGG will tend to win because louder music sounds clearer and better. This dosn't mean that its the better format.
I just read the partition. It sounds better in my head than any compressed format, and it compresses very well if you want to store it.
And you don't need any power hungry device to read it on the move, just a sheet of paper. Way more efficient...
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>We have to face it, someone whose downloaded even as little as 50
>songs from Napster is never going to touch Ogg if converting is going
>to screw over the sound quality.
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Idiots like you just don't get it, do you? It doesn't matter if people like you don't adopt Ogg. The fact is that most new files will be Ogg because that's what most of the freeware/open source encoders/rippers like Lame will create. MP3 is *DEAD* as an encoding format for non-comerical software.