[nylug-talk] TIme to get a Nokia N810

[Gregg Levine]

On Dec 11, 2007 10:55 PM, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
>
> Chris Knadle
> Chris.Knadle at coredump.us
>

Hello!
No argument here. All of my music is stored in MP3 format for my iPod.
That was part of an experimental project. The sounds were just that,
sounds. Music is another thing.

-- 
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature was once found posting rude
 messages in English in the Moscow subway."