Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[John Andersen <jsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 04 September 2006 01:00, William Gallafent wrote:
> My preferred solution is to store everything as FLAC, then
> lossily convert when appropriate to a format suitable for a
> given player, if that player does not play FLAC, or I need a
> higher compression ratio than that provides.

But Flac is no better than storing in WAV which is how its
on the CDs, is it?

I've converted some MP3 files to ogg with mpg321-->oggenc
and found that my old tin ears can't really detect any degradation
as long as I use ogg encode quality high enough to at least
match the bitrate of the original mp3.  (usually this means
ogg quality=4 for 128bitrate and quality=5 for 160bitrate mp3s)

There is still loss happing, I just can;t hear it, plus, my music is 
not so demanding... 

I usually save no file space with this scheme, so I give
up that feature of ogg to prevent creeping loss.

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John Andersen