From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 07:10:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EA816A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CCF343D1F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 07:10:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 10631 invoked by uid 65534); 13 Feb 2004 15:10:38 -0000 Received: from B6250.b.pppool.de (EHLO wintermute) (213.7.98.80) by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 13 Feb 2004 16:10:38 +0100 X-Authenticated: #685629 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 14:29:07 +0100 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <20040213142907.04d9c5b5.krylon@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <402C65D7.1080802@countrypure.net> References: <402C4F8C.5020704@cox.net> <402C65D7.1080802@countrypure.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--netbsdelf) X-Operating-System: NetBSD 1.6.2_RC4 User-Agent: Sylpheed 0.9.8a X-Face: "G=jn*S]P-JmPX0[GAK; )7Yo0p?#U/0m{g!*j3XGvT80*#5pX0kPN$4+azk{O#@ZEZV9BS:4y; \9utXK@+?.mCT.k%G&Ix2XEj-`bBt{TituWYrQ5npZb+:ERfmRt-((lW:itQr$C|B~; vhJ:>2,{tA}#)P'g3h6eE8JT|Qfcm50pUoy{zb8=jvof2?lY}EYTEt4z=5*i%OJ136\?S8^g~^>,s&,jBb'=K|ryeVtUX5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Creating mp3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:10:40 -0000 Hello, On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 23:51:19 -0600 Quintin Riis 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 mp3 is outdated, use vorbis.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