[vorbis] quality settings

[Jonathan Gramain]

If you want archival quality oggs, to keep them for years and don't hear any
difference with the original, you could encode at -q 7, which is about
230-250kbps. -q 5 gives a good quality too, identical to the original for
the average listener.

The advice I can give you is to make several tests with a few samples,
using -q 4, -q 5 and others. If you hear a difference with the original
sample at -q 4 and not at -q 5 for example, you can safely encode at -q 6
or -q 7. That's just a suggestion, you see what you want :)

----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Fuller <Phaedras at gmx.net>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:41 PM
Subject: [vorbis] quality settings

<p>> ARGH! I am at a complete loss as to which OGG quality settings to use: 8?
> 10? 3?
> I'd like to be able to listen to my primarily Rock oriented music on a
> high-end system (though I don't own one - yet) without any noticeable
sound
> degradation, but I don't want to go total overkill with -q 10. With LAME,
I at
> least used to know 192 kbps with -q0 was a perfect size/quality
proportion. I
> can't seem to be able to choose with the OGG settings...heck, even -q 3
doesn't
> really sound bad to me (on my Cambridge Soundworks speakers, the ones that
> came with my SBLive).
>
> Any suggestions as to which settings to use?
>
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