[vorbis-dev] One codebook for all audiofiles?

[Marshall Eubanks]

Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:

> "Erik Stenborg" <d99papa at dtek.chalmers.se> wrote:
>
> > I agree, but then he cant reach 4:1 ratio. Most lossless compressors only
> > reaches 2:1.
>
> Yes, sadly they only *reach* 2:1 compression ratio. With most
> metal music things are very bad: 1.3:1 - 1.5:1 is what you
> can hope to get - almost pointless.
>
> ---
> Aleksandar @ Vorbis Xtreme | http://solair.eunet.yu/~aldov
> Ogg Vorbis is the free, open source alternative to MP3
>

If your archives contain many 100's of gigabytes of uncompressed audio files
(as ours do) a 25% reduction in storage space used seems pretty attactive.


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