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[symbioidlj]

got the hard-drive in...

did a test rip of some autechre.

track 2 from draft 7.30...

I have the original CD audio, the ripped WAV, 2 MP3s(with the option "extreme", with an older version of lame that supposedly has better quality with the "extreme" option, and a different encoding option in a different software program)), and my old OGG that I ripped in Linux when I first started to rip my CD's.

At about 6 seconds in the track, there is a slight distorted ripping sound, but it's very subtle. the WAV that was ripped has it more pronounced than in the actual track from CD(the CD sounds fairly muffled in comparison to any of the audio files themselves)...

Now, the MP3(I encoded it in two separate programs with 2 different methods. One method is like a bit smaller(a couple k), but it sounds better)...

The OGG, however. damnit. The track in MP3 is like 7 Megs. But in OGG, which is 128 vbr(I used 192 vbr, with a max of 320 for my MP3s)... The OGG is half the size of the MP3. about 3.5 megs. And........ That buzzing sound is less grating. It blends more into the music in a similar way as the CD does. I could encode it at maybe a higher rate in OGG, and have it more faithfully reproduce.

It just seems like OGG has less of these artifacts. It's tough to tell, and in the long run, I'd be happy with either, but I'm torn.

Because, the differences are so subtle, that it doesn't matter, so I may as well save space by going with OGG(and also I have a shitload of CD's already ripped as OGG)

But.... Since OGG support is still not widespread on hardware, if I do decide to go with a car stereo, or portable player, I'd have better luck with mp3s.....

But by the time I'm ready to get some hardware like that, I'm sure there will be more OGG support.

I know, Brent, you think I should just go with MP3, but personally, OGG is damn appealing. It seems just a bit more faithful in the reprodution and at half the file size. shit, how can you argue with that?

bah.

Comments

[thaumaturge.livejournal.com]

Why don't you try using lzip (http://lzip.sourceforge.net/)? I hear it's really good for small file sizes.

[vesicular.livejournal.com]

You could also try AAC, which has outstanding compression, but then you'd be stuck w/ iTunes for playback. I'm not saying you should go w/ MP3 per se, just whatever you think works best for you. For me, unfortunatley, that's MP3 because of what I'm doing w/ our music. If I could do everything I want w/ AAC, I'd switch, but the adoption rate just isn't there, and at this point I'm not re-ripping 500 CD's. The only way I would is when HD's get into the TB range and FLAC catches on (if it ever does).