[vorbis] When will quality increase be unnoticable?

[Nicola Larosa]

 > Eventually, I settled on 192kbit, using AudioCatalyst (with the Xing
 > encoder) to do my ripping.  This is now the bulk of my collection.

Man, am I sorry for you. That's the worst MP3 encoder out there. :^(

<p> > What do other people think, should I jump up to -q5 or -q6 in case I grow
 > golden-OGG-ears later on and regret it?

Even if I did extensive tests and could not find differences in most 
samples, except one, at -q 1 (Ogg's that good), I encode at 4.99 for the 
same reason, since it's a sweet spot for the quality/size ratio.

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Nicola Larosa - nico at tekNico.net

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