[vorbis] WMA9 versus OGG

[John Morton]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:51, Tom Page wrote:
>  Hello all
>
>  I have been encoding to OGG as a default for well over a year, but I
>  recently thought I ought to test how it sounds compared to other codecs. I
>  got the Windows Media 9 encoder and I was quite surprised at how bad a job
>  OGG did at quality 0 with a simple piano clip, and how well WMA9 was -
> I've always considered WMA as being a bit naff, but WMA9 has forced me to
> re-access this view

At this level you really have to go with the artifacts you can live with. That 
said, I agree with  Lorenzo that the ringing/twinkling artifacts in the wma 
version are far more intrusive than the swishing produced by vorbis sounds 
pretty much like the swishing of the waves anyway. The -q4 --resample 22500 
version is ok, but I don't like the loss of attack that you get at that 
sample rate.

John

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