[advocacy] Ogg Vorbis Defeats All Other Formats

[Erik Moeller]

German computer magazine c't has run a very large and scientifically
sound hearing test of music formats, and the results are in: Ogg Vorbis
is the clear winner, at all bitrates, both according to 6000 readers who
downloaded and evaluated unlabeled sample files and according to eight
expert testers.

I've written an English summary here:

http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2002/9/8/23472/23921

And the German press release is here:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.09.02-000/

The testers also found that the difference between uncompressed music
and Ogg at 64 kbps is less noticable than the difference between
uncompressed music and MP3 at 128 kbps. And c't didn't even dicuss Ogg's
various other advantages -- it was rated superior based on its encoding
quality alone.

Kudos to Monty and all the others for making this possible. This is a
big victory, and I encourage you to really get the word out about this!

All best,

Erik

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