[vorbis] An Analysis of the c't Codec Test

[Per Wigren]

Isn't the purpouse of using quality instead of bitrate that it will always be 
the same quality? So very-easy-to-encode sound should sound as good as 
very-hard-to-encode sound, but the easy sound uses 60kbit/s and the hard one 
380kbit/s ?

// Wigren

Tuesday 01 October 2002 15.09 skrev Ross Vandegrift:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 10:48:27AM -0100, fungus wrote:
> > One the one hand this is a great achievement but on the
> > other hand normal people aren't going to figure out how
> > good it is because they'll never push the limits.
> > Who's going to set "quality 0.5" when they've got a
> > range from zero up to ten.
>
> This is very true.  I can easily hear MP3 distortion up to about 256kbps
> on most music.  I've heard some songs where I can tell at 256kbps.
>
> I have never heard compression artifacts from Ogg Vorbis.
> Unfortunately, I'm scared that one day I'll be able to, and my entire CD
> collection, encoded at the economical q=3.0 or less will become sick
> sounding.  So I kinda wuss out and just set q to 5-ish, so any difficult
> to encode music has some headroom.

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