[vorbis] Is Vorbis really THIS good?

[Alen Ladavac]

Ogg is really better and you can probably make 80kbps oggs that sound much
better than 160kbps mp3s. (Well, at least in our tests here we created
64kbps oggs that sounded just as good as 128kbps mp3s - and as most people
will tell you 64kbps mp3 would just sound _bad_). But, _don't_ do the
re-encoding from mp3 to ogg (as Moritz said).

[aside from what Moritz already answered, just wanted to restate that ogg is
really good hehe...]

Alen

----- Original Message -----
From: "EdB" <edb at earthling.net>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 15:33
Subject: [vorbis] Is Vorbis really THIS good?

> I'm an OGG newbie...
>
> Recently the 'MP3 to All Converter' was offered on this list, so I tried
it.
>
> I tested converting a few of my 160kbps MP3 files to OGG, and was
> surprised at the sound quality.  Then I noticed the much smaller OGG
> file size and checked the converter bit rate-- it was set to 80kbps!
>
> Is Vorbis really that good that it can make a converted 160kbps MP3
> sound as good at 80kbps?  Or am I just hearing impaired?
>
>
> Ciao for now,
>
> --EdB  <edb at earthling.net>
> http://www.geocities.com/endered
>
>
>
>
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