[vorbis] When will quality increase be unnoticable?

[David K. Gasaway]

Øyvind Stegard wrote:

> Too much at 128kbps, if you ask me, and this is, for me, 
> the absolute lowest acceptable bitrate [...]
> and audio quality is, no matter which codec (though ogg beats'em all) 
> rather poor below 128 kbps.

You think in bitrate terms too much.  Before the advent of MP3, 128 kbps 
was *way* too low.  However, encoding technology is improving.  Imagine 
where 128 kbps will be a few years down the road.

> 2. Harddisks (and storage in general) aren't exactly getting any smaller 
> these days, and the same with internet/network bandwith.

There will always be a shortage of resources of some sort.  These 
arguments almost never work out.

> I think that audio codec developers should concentrate on getting more 
> quality out of the standard ratios we have today, rather than trying to 
> get the bitrate even lower.

As Carsten said: "getting more quality" and "getting the bitrate lower" 
are the same; at least, they require the same effort.

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