[vorbis] make lo-fi sound as good as RealAudio?

[Derek at CD Baby]

Thanks Jack & everyone.

Here's one WAV + RM to start with, for now:

http://hitmedia.com/audiotest/

If you need more to do a fair comparison, let me know.  This just happened to be the only CD I brought with me today.  :-)

But those are the RealAudio settings we use for CD Baby.  It's done in DOS, optimized for 20k bitrate.

If you want to point me to a WAV file online, I'll encode it with RealAudio optimized for 20k bitrate, and upload to this same /audiotest/ page.
 

<p>> > I'm DYING to ditch RealAudio from our site!    Hell if Ogg can sound that good on a 33.6k modem, I'll go be an Ogg evangelist to 30,000 musicians and 200,000 customers.   But I haven't been able to do it yet.
> 
> Few of us are super-familiar with RealAudio quality.  If you could
> provide us some .wavs and corresponding .ras, people will be more able
> to experiement and help you find some suitable Ogg quality.  Or we'll
> figure out that we're a little shy in this area and work to improve it
> quickly :)

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Derek Sivers, CD Baby, Hostbaby
http://www.cdbaby.com  <-- best new independent music
http://www.hostbaby.com <-- web hosting for musicians

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