Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 21 November 2005 10:50, Mark Jordan wrote:
the article mentioned using the Ogg or Flac codecs. Is there a tool
that easily converts mp3 to these formats? can ogg or flac be put onto
cds and played? when i means simple it would be nice to have something
like "convert foo.mp3 bar.ogg"
Flac is a lossless compression utility, but its output would not be
hugely smaller than a .wav. I haven't used it but I'd expect it to be
indistinguishable from the original.
Ogg, OTOH, does have some losses, but for my ears, anything above a Q6
setting at encode time is indestinguishable from the original, and
generates file sizes comparable to mp3's at 128k, or smaller. I can't
say that the 128k mp3 is even listenable, giveing me a very high
fatigue factor after 5 minutes or so.
So I think the statement that ogg is better than mp3 at any comparable
filesize is quit true.
From my experience, flac is ~25% smaller than the wave files for most
music. I really have not looked that closely. I will have to look
closer into this.
I use OGG but I feel with the cost of HD's today, why save as a lossy
format. Also, this gives me a backup of my CD if it decides to fail.
Convert back to wav and have a copy if ever needed.
I do agree with you that ogg is much better than mp3's in my own
experience. I find that all the ogg files I have ripped seem to have
a full dynamic range over any of the mp3's. Even when the mp3's have
a higher bitrate.
