[vorbis-dev] One codebook for all audiofiles?

[Aleksandar Dovnikovic]

"Marshall Eubanks" <tme at 21rst-century.com> wrote:

> Aleksandar Dovnikovic wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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.

OK, I could say that this kind of reduction is noticeable, but when you
look at how much compression you can get with lossy compression
(or even some lossless/lossy hybrid that Monkey Audio is working on),
then it doesn't look to me that there is much use...


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