Vorbis And Musepack Win 128kbps Multiformat Test

technology is sexy writes "After 11 days of collecting results Roberto Amorim today announced the results of his 2nd Multi-Format listening test: Vorbis fork AoTuV scored the highest and ranks as the winner together with open source contender Musepack closely followed by Apple's AAC implementation and LAME MP3, which improved markably since last year thanks to further tunings of its VBR model done by Gabriel Bouvigne. Sony's ATRAC3 format ranks last after WMA on the third place. The suprising success of AoTuV (compared to last year's performance of Xiph.org's reference implementation) shows the potential of Vorbis and possible room for further tuning and improvments. Take a look at the detailed results and their discussion at Hydrogenaudio.org."

Comments

They will never

[millahtime]

So given Microsofts stated goal to bring us innovative technology, they should throw in the towel and ship OggVorbis and derivatives with Windows, right?

Microsoft will never. They will take the code from the #1, put a DRM to it and ship it as the next version of WMA. If they can't make the best they buy or take the best and make it their own. (with some tweaking of course)

Re:FLAC?

[Jugalator]

First -- it's only crappy if the difference is noticeable. Icode my music in a lossy format, but of course enough so it isn't noticeable when using headphones. That's good enough for me, and as a bonus I've saved the disk space. In the future 80 GB might be little, but it isn't today and that's what matters as you buy hard drives.