[vorbis] How to fit Oggs in a specific amount of space?

[Greg Wooledge]

Per Wigren (wigren at home.se) wrote:

> I've noticed that a lot of my old (70s/80s) punkrock records uses a very high 
> bitrate compared to newer music.. I don't think it is because the punk is 
> more "noisy" (in fact, a lot of the music is not noisy at all, even quite 
> soft sometimes), but because they are cheap recordings with a lot of "silent 
> subnoise" like a buzzing amplifier or two in the background, cheap 
> microphones that distorts a little on loud sounds etc...

I've noticed the same thing on some Jimi Hendrix tracks.  The tape hiss
and the (intentional) distortion need more bits to encode.


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