Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:29:07 +0100 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Creating mp3 Message-ID: <20040213142907.04d9c5b5.krylon@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <402C65D7.1080802@countrypure.net> References: <402C4F8C.5020704@cox.net> <402C65D7.1080802@countrypure.net>
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Hello, On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:51:19 -0600 Quintin Riis <webmaster@countrypure.net> wrote: > mp3 is outdated, use vorbis. I wouldn't say so. Unless you show me an affordable hardware-vorbis-player. There's plenty of CD-Players that will also play mp3-CDs, just like most standalone-DVD-players. Also, I hear, XMMS does not support vorbis. I don't know for sure, though. Furthermore, mp3 offers suffcient audio-quality (if your audio-source is of good quality and your encoder is good) for most circumstances - Vorbis, as far as I know, offers superior audio-quality only at bitrates above 160 kbps. And at that bitrates, I don't think I could tell mp3 from vorbis, at least not using my ES1371-based sound-card and my cheap active speakers. Just to make things clear, there's *nothing* wrong with vorbis. If you care for audio-quality primarily and your source offers that degree of quality, go for vorbis! But there *are* reasons for still using mp3, and it's not exactly like mp3 sucks. =) > > abcde is nice, as is cdparanoia AFAIK, abcde only serves as a frontend for various other tools (cdparanoia, lame, oggenc, ...). You still need cdparanoia, oggenc, lame, for abcde to work. > Quintin kind regards, Benjamin
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