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

[Derek at CD Baby]

Hey guys -

Thanks VERY much for the feedback on this thread.  I think it's going to 
work, and I'll be a big ogg evangelist by making it the default format on 
cdbaby.com (30k unique visitors a day.)

I've been doing some tests here to find the optimum point.  I'm willing to 
go up to 32k mono  (from my original post, requesting 20k stereo) - because 
it just sounds SO much better, it'll be worth the occasional stutter for 
those on 28.8k connections, I think.

So - before I make some decision and start encoding 200,000 audio files 
into this new format:

Can someone test on their own *.wav source material of their choice:

COMPARE:
oggenc -M 32 --downmix --resample 32000 YourSong.wav
to
oggenc -M 32 -q -1.0 --downmix YourSong.wav

<p>I won't even say what I think of the difference because I don't want to 
taint your opinion.

<p>
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