[vorbis] Fw: CD Ripper Beta Software: RipTrax

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John Lundy wrote:

> "Don't higher bitrates always mean higher quality?"

 >

Nope.

Adding extra bits might make no difference whatsoever.
If the encoder can encode the signal with less bits
(a simple signal) then it might have to pad with
zeros to get the required bitrate.

<p>> If not, what would be the preferred interface parameters to
> represent a quality centric application?
>

<p>That's hard to say - it's a completely different
metric.

How will you get your users to realize that 128kbs

mp3 isn't the same quality as 128kbs ogg?

If you allow users to select bitrate independently
of encoder then you're doing ogg a big disfavour
because most people will select a bitrate based
on what they know about mp3.

OTOH, if the bitrate selection is dependent on what
encoder they select then you might as well switch
the user interface to "quality" instead of "bitrate"
when they choose ogg. Everybody wins if you do this,
including the users - they'll be getting the smaller
files which ogg can produce.

<p>
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