[vorbis] WMA9 versus OGG

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You might want to go over to HydrogenAudio.org and look around for some
discussions about a couple of alternative tuned versions of Vorbis.  (I'd
give you the links, but I don't have them.  I haven't been concerned about
low bit rates.  I just see the message threads occasionally.)

Everybody knows of Garf's higher tunings, but in the past few months, there
have actually been some other people trying to tune Vorbis for the lower
ranges too.

WMA 9 has improved, and WMA 9 PRO is supposedly much better. (They gave up
compatability with regular WMA.)  But considering how many people are
anti-microsoft, you might want to be careful saying anything good about
their products...[grin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Page" <t.a.page at durham.ac.uk>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 6:51 PM
Subject: [vorbis] WMA9 versus OGG

<p>> 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
>
> Drop by
>
> http://www.tompagenet.co.uk/vorbis/
>
> to see if you agree or can offer any insight - shouldn't OGG beat WMA9 in
> sound quality? The original is from the Lost in Translation sound track -
> please don't download it too much - I do have limited bandwidth!
>
> Thanks, Tom
>
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