[vorbis] Fw: CD Ripper Beta Software: RipTrax

[John Lundy]

Good recommendations. I'll check into doing this.

John

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From: "fungus" <meditvr at teleline.es>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Fw: CD Ripper Beta Software: RipTrax

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