[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

[Chris Knadle]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Gregg Levine wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 9:05 PM, Zach Stern <zach at wordrockets.com> wrote:
> > Yeah and they're at least partially responsible for the removal of OGG
> > from the HTML5 standard.
..
> Which to my mind means that it is a good thing. I've used that format
> a few times while exploring sound collection and file format creation
> on my Linux system, and to hearing a sound file in that format sounded
> poor. Whereas everything else including everyone's least favorite that
> of the WAV one sounded good.

   WAV is an uncompressed format.  Try storing all of your music in WAV and 
you'll be surprised to find that songs are 10x the size.  Sound quality or 
not, I won't be using that format for storing my audio, especially when it 
comes to portable media players.

   A comparison between MP3 and OGG is far more fitting, since they're both 
compressed formats -- and between the two, audiofiles have determined that 
OGG actually sounds better.  I don't have the ear to be able to discern the 
difference, personally.  The main thing I don't like with MP3 is that certain 
players seem to skip in playback or fail to show time length during playback 
[making fast-forward & rewind unavailable] depending on how the MP3 was 
encoded.  I'm not sure why that happens, but I've never run into that problem 
with OGG thusfar.  It takes slightly more CPU to playback OGG over MP3, but 
even the tiny portable media players of today seem to have enough CPU to deal 
with that.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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