[vorbis] sound quality / size

[Michael Smith]

At 09:50 PM 3/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Greatly concerned for size, i just ripped an audio cd @ 22050kHz 
>and mono sound.  Encoding using 'oggenc -b 1 -', the resulting 
>Ogg file is around 30kb/s.  During the encoding process i was 
>"warned" that the encoder is tuned toward 44.1kHz and encoding 
>files in any other may result in degraded quality.  How worried 
>should I be?  Is the advantage in size lost due to crappy 
>quality (versus 44.1kHz mono files)?

Listen to the file. If the quality is sufficient for you, then 
be happy. If not, then I guess you should be worried :)
Obviously, you're saving a lot in bitrate by doing this, but
you have a corresponding loss in quality - the question is 
whether (for you/your purposes) that loss is acceptable.

Michael

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