[vorbis] Beta3 impressions

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > I think the term you're searching for is "ambient quality"
> >
> > Yeah, that one sounds good. Although it's not about quality... Maybe
> > just plain "ambience" is best.
> 
> Actually, "ambience" is best used to describe sounds in the space in which
> the wavelet is converted to audible format: for instance, the normal noise
> in a room, which consists of your breathing, air currents created by
> movement, and the hum of your PC :) are classed as "ambience".

OK. But my PC doesn't hum; it sizzles. Really. And the CD drives sound
like a carpenter shop :-)

> In a discussion, you would say "using multiple encoding methods for seperate
> frames in the same unit would produce frames of differing abient quality."
> Remember that a quality is also a characteristic, not a measure of how well
> something is constructed.

I know, but it confuses people (including myself sometimes).

Dagdag,

Segher

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