[vorbis] Quality & ripping speed

[Mark Hetherington]

At 5.00 lossless stereo coupling is enabled. As a result bitrate jumps quite a 
bit between 4.99 and 5.00, for a small quality increase on most samples, 
although on some samples lossless stereo is a big advantage. Generally though 
4.99 sounds very similar to 5.00 and shaves off some redundant stereo 
image....

Again, you need to listen to see if you can hear the difference and decide if 
the bitrate hit is worth it.

Cdex verifies the CD and reconstructs scratches etc. i.e. it will decode an 
error free rip, every time. I don't know if your Exact Audio setup might do 
this. You can expect a *large* performance hit for perfect verifyed audio 
extraction...

Mark

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:07, Amy Schoenhofen wrote:
> Thanks for all the great responses on tools to use - I have Exact Audio
> Copy and CDex working very well, and I've been working out all the kinks.
>
> Two questions, one very Vorbis related, one not :)
>
> 1) I know people have asked many times "What quality should I use". Well, I
> want to ask it again but in a narrower frame. I see less than 10%
> difference in size between 4.99 and 5.00 - what's the big difference? Is
> going to 5, albeit .00 much better than 4.99? I can go to 5.99 for another
> 15-20% size hit.. is it worth it? Where does it end? :)
>
> 2) Exact Audio digitally extracts at 8-9X, while I can't get CDex to
> extract higher than 1-1.5X. Any ideas? Is this common to CDex? Is there a
> favored mode people have in CDex?
>
>
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