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

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Derek at CD Baby wrote:
> P.S.    Is this a bug?
> oggenc -M 32 -q -1.0 --downmix YourSong.wav
> oggenc -M 28 -q -1.0 --downmix YourSong.wav
[equal results]

No, because -M will be ignored without --managed. When using --managed,
you also want to use -b instead of -q. Using -b is always a good idea,
as the encoder would assume the default of -b 112 (for 44.1kHz/stereo
output, this is just an example) without it. This means it thinks it can
use many bits, but ends up hammered down by the -M parameter, which
results in bad quality.

Huh, what a weird sentence. I'll try again if that can't be understood.
:)

<p>Moritz
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