[vorbis] fitting lots of music into 10GB with Vorbis

[Amy Schoenhofen]

The quality level of 5.0 (I use OggDropXPd) to encode seems to work well
for "semi-casual" playback... your best bet is to take a few of your
songs, encode them at different levels, and try 'em out yourself. IMO,
5.0 is plenty good enough - equates to about a 160kb rate, I think.

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From: owner-vorbis at xiph.org [mailto:owner-vorbis at xiph.org] On Behalf Of
Martin Blackwell
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:14 PM
To: vorbis at xiph.org
Subject: [vorbis] fitting lots of music into 10GB with Vorbis

<p>Hi- just wondering, what would be the best quality rating to use to fit
lots of music into 10GB of HD space.
The audio quality has to be high enough for it to sound good when played
through PA systems (for when my college is stupid enough to forget to
hire a DJ, or when the realise the DJ they always hire can't use a
mixing desk properly) ranging from a functional PA system thats stuck in
the theatre permantly, to a seperate PA system that is very nice and is
used for when we're stuck in the middle of a field. The resulting
filesize of the Vorbis file has to be low enough to fit neatly onto my
crappy 10GB HD (untill i can afford to buy a nice new one).
I've attatched a playlist generated by Winamp listing the music
collection i've got. It fits into 8.41GB which excludes the few
remaining MP3s, lyrics files & midi files which take up 425MB.
 
The situation the music will be used in will be (through my Audigy EX
nicely provided by the Princes' Trust):
 
1) Where a low-cost (eg free) "dj" is required for college discos &
other college events.
2) In a middle of a field through at the other college site when the
performing arts department puts on a show & they need a break
3) For my own personal pleasure :P
 
So basically, me needs help in resizing the music collection to a point
where the filesize is low enough to fit more music into, but where the
quality is high enough to be played at live gigs, and messed around with
digitally without causing hair-tearing artefacts, so any suggestion for
config specs to encode CDs directly to Vorbis files ? (I will most
likely be using CDex unless someone has a better idea)
 
PS- where can i get my hands on a windows version of that Huffman tool
to further reduce the file size

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