[vorbis] Format comparison

[Scott Manley]

Jack Moffitt wrote:
> 
> > > removes the silence gaps that we have with MP3,
> >
> > The average listener hasn't noticed. If you take a CD of songs with
> > silence between them (the usual pop-music format), and rip it into a
> > bunch of MP3 files, the silence gaps are not a problem, because the CD
> > had silence between the songs anyway. Unless you're referring to
> > something else entirely that I haven't even noticed; if so, then this
> > must be a really esoteric problem, in which case, again, the average
> > user hasn't noticed and doesn't care.
> 
> Have youy listened to any electronic music at all?  This is a pretty
> seriuos problem, and growing in seriousness as the rise of DJ culture
> continues.

Or live albums, in fact most of my cd collection contains tracks with no
silence between them.

Anyway - comparisons with mp3 are all very good - but mp3 isn't so much
a threat as windows media format - I know that any decent listener can
hear flaws in the audio even at the highest bitrate setting, but
microsoft is targetting the lowest common denominator. They claim
bitrates of 48kbit/sec for cd quality - and on a casual listen most
people are happy with the quality.

That's the real thing to be shooting for 

-- 
Scott Manley (AKA Szyzyg)
Streaming Media Hacker
www.myplay.com

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