Which lossy format are you using?, Poll version 2 |
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Which lossy format are you using?, Poll version 2 |
 Aug 8 2004, 06:43
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 Group: Developer Posts: 432 Joined: 22-February 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 12180  |
Most of my stuff's in MPC, but I got tired of worrying about quality, so I'm re-ripping it all to FLAC -7. It's mostly classical, so I'm getting an average bitrate of 583kbps. (409 for one CD
 ) Still voted for MPC, because it is the lossy format I am using; I'll just be using it much less in the future.
-------------------- "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!" - Vroomfondel, H2G2
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Aug 13 2004, 10:44
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#77
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Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: 6-October 01 Member No.: 227 |
MP3. almost my entire collection is that. i really liked the idea behind OGG and i even was ripping exclusively to it at one time, but everything i own that i listen to music on that plays something other than CDDA only plays MP3.
i'd use MPC since it's pretty much become the same as OGG in the way of "mostly patentless" (or expired at least) from what i've gathered from many, many bickering threads (please don't start any more in this one) HOWEVER the compression gained over MP3 isn't enough to push me over the edge to reencoding my collection. i AM rearing to see AAC hit headunits and discmans and home audio systems as 128kbps is good enough in my ears and almost half of what i'm getting with APS-forced stereo (that's another of my "things"). |
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Aug 13 2004, 16:15
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 Group: Members Posts: 493 Joined: 28-December 03 From: Melbourne, Aus Member No.: 10767 |
*quietly avoids asking the dumb question about forced stereo*
i'm slowly converting to mpc, as i do most of my listening at the computer. but like most of us, i've got a large legacy collection in mp3. |
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Aug 14 2004, 08:37
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Group: Members Posts: 310 Joined: 6-October 01 Member No.: 227 |
QUOTE (Omion @ Aug 7 2004, 10:43 PM) Most of my stuff's in MPC, but I got tired of worrying about quality, so I'm re-ripping it all to FLAC -7. It's mostly classical, so I'm getting an average bitrate of 583kbps. (409 for one CD ) Still voted for MPC, because it is the lossy format I am using; I'll just be using it much less in the future. yeah, classical encodes insanely well. i did a sasha lazard track which encoded at under 640kbps... unfortunately the smallest fraction of my collection is classical, however. |
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Aug 14 2004, 11:22
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Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 9-April 04 Member No.: 13357 |
With insanely large hard disks at an all time low price i decided to set up a raid mirror with 2 250gig drives.
What do I use, flac of course. For archival choice lossless is the only way to go. With eac and my drive offset setup perfectly I never have to worry about quality, updating the codec, having to re-rip if something better comes along. And the replaygain metadata is a superb touch, so much better than normalizing. I guess I won't ever change now unless perhaps flac2 comes along with 200% better compression and even then i can just transcode as its lossless lol 
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Aug 14 2004, 12:10
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Group: Members Posts: 31 Joined: 9-July 04 Member No.: 15229 |
When AAC came along I just decided settling for it at 160kbps. To me, it's very comfortable with the small file-sizes. Also, I'm on a Mac & only using iTunes, hence the decision. If something revolutionary comes along, I just re-rip some of my fav. CDs.
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 Aug 14 2004, 20:53
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Still using MP3 for use on dektop [preset standard], notebook [preset 128] and portable.
Reasons : transparency (with APS), wide hardware-support and low energy-consumtion. The combination of Lame, foobar200, Winamp5 with mpg123-decoder offers me all the things I need : good tagging, replaygain-support and gapless playback. For archiving on DVD-/+R I use FLAC. I'm pretty happy with this combination after severall experimentations with Vorbis, Musepack and (oh my god  ] WMA.
-------------------- FLAC --> MP3 (Lame 3.96.1: V5 --athaa-sensitivity 1)
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Aug 15 2004, 13:13
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#83
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Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 13-July 03 From: Brazil Member No.: 7733 |
I always tend to go, either with .mpc or lossless.
But on this poll I rather choose .mpc for the rankings.. 
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Aug 15 2004, 22:39
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 Group: Members Posts: 371 Joined: 10-August 04 From: Canada Member No.: 16174 |
FLAC for PC listening, which are transcoded to Vorbis for use with the Rio Karma. If the Karma ever gets MPC support (or something else comes along that does), I'll switch to that because I feel it's the absolute best choice of all the lossy codecs at the moment.
Note about editing this post: Original vote was MP3, made back before I owned a portable or knew anything about ABX testing. This post has been edited by Digisurfer: Oct 26 2004, 01:27 |
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Aug 16 2004, 07:25
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Musepack, soon switching to mp4/AAC since I'm getting an iPod
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Sep 6 2004, 09:46
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 Group: Members Posts: 121 Joined: 6-July 03 From: Finland Member No.: 7590 |
Even though this poll is fairly young, compared to the previous one, some conclusions can be made. As expected with constantly growing hd sizes, lossless has gained users. The support seems to have pretty much doubled since the last poll. What is not expected, is that in spite of a long period of non-existant development, Musepack seems to have also gained support at the expence of mp3 and ogg vorbis, which have both dropped by ~6% units since the last time. The reasons might include the security of the most largely tested format, and also the individual listening tests (Guruboolez) that have one after another proved mpc to be the best format in reaching transparency. Mpc might also be easier to adopt than ogg vorbis because of the one (or perhaps two) best encoder version, instead of several different branches.
I'm still using mpc myself, because I'm mainly listening to music at home on my own computer. I also still believe that mr. Klemm will get that SV8 done one day, and then mpc would really start to interest people in a whole new way. -------------------- XMPlay rocks! www.un4seen.com
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Sep 6 2004, 11:22
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Ogg Vorbis all the way. At least my iRiver iHP-100 says so. And I like that.
--Cai |
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Sep 6 2004, 17:58
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Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 6-September 04 Member No.: 16814 |
Anyone that has been in computers since 80col card punches, and pc's since keyboards attached to tv and loading from 4track tape, will probably have lots of MP3 as I do. I also support what I use - paid for using MMJB, Copernic and Winzip. I see no mention here of MP3Pro and WMA lossless? It also seems the quality is less important than size / speed. I agree that original CD can serve as backup, but have lost a lot of disks to midnight shopping here in SA, so lossless best option with min disk space would help. For use, whatever will play in the car and on hi-fi cd at least at inaudible degradation will do.
I do MP3pro VBR 100%, not sure if that would audibly compare to the others mentioned, but plays in the car and hi-fi. Will investigate lossless for backup. PS: I suppose the right to play my stolen CD MP3's now resides with the unlawful owner?? 
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Sep 6 2004, 18:22
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Well Guruboolez also shows that the latest Ogg Vorbis variants (AoTuvb2 and its successors) are on a par with MPC (or very close or sometimes better), which was also backed up by the latest 128kbps test, where Ogg Vorbis fared better.
I personally never considered MPC because it is not prevalent enough no HW support, It also turned out in this thread there as of now there is no way to cut MPC files let alone I suppose to join them (although I might be wrong). Anyway this lack of basic support is alarming to me. I considered only MP3 or Vorbis and decided on Vorbis because there is HW support, easy tagging, which MP3 does not have. It has pretty gradual quality settings (10 levels), which the old LAME did not have. Also free so there is no legal issues and fundamentally better format than MP3 by learning from some of the mistakes MP3 had. Although when I made this decision Vorbis had issues. Now even that is gone thanks to all the very active Vorbis members on HA (Aoyumi, Harashin, Guruboolez, Quantumknot, phong and a lot of others whose contribution made it into the official Ogg Vorbis too recently (Vorbis 1.1RC1) So for me it seems I have no compromise to make. Ogg Vorbis is a clear winner. Triza This post has been edited by Triza: Sep 6 2004, 18:33 |
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Sep 6 2004, 19:56
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Group: Members Posts: 353 Joined: 13-April 02 From: Manchester, NH Member No.: 1771 |
I have been using and will continue to use MP3 (aps) for my music collection. The reasons are simple: don't want to re-rip, the sound quality is great, and I use several devices that have MP3 playback (car stereo, portable player, etc). Plus the hard drive space taken up by it isn't insane compared to lossless.
-------------------- iTunes 10 - Mac OS X 10.6
256kbps AAC VBR iPhone 4 32GB |
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Sep 6 2004, 20:19
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Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 158 Joined: 6-May 03 From: Helsinki, FI Member No.: 6424 |
Everything goes first to FLAC for my home theater system (2x 120GB), then to AAC 192 using iTunes for my iPod. I still have some MPC -q7 laying around, and some MP3's as well. But all new encodes are FLAC and AAC.
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Sep 6 2004, 21:26
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 Group: Members Posts: 574 Joined: 15-December 02 From: Rijeka, Croatia Member No.: 4090 |
I use AAC mainly since I bought an iPod. I still have many tracks in MPC and other codecs, but I'm encoding new tracks into AAC mostly.
For lossless stuff, I use WavPack. |
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Sep 6 2004, 21:33
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Very recently, since I have more hard drive space now, I've now started what will probably be my final rips since i'm encoding entirely to FLAC for use on my computer and then encoding the FLACs to Ogg Vorbis for use with my iHP-120. It's win-win and it really doesn't use up all that much space IMO.
-------------------- Nero AAC 1.5.1.0: -q0.45
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Sep 6 2004, 23:24
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Group: Members Posts: 121 Joined: 6-July 03 From: Finland Member No.: 7590 |
QUOTE Well Guruboolez also shows that the latest Ogg Vorbis variants (AoTuvb2 and its successors) are on a par with MPC (or very close or sometimes better), which was also backed up by the latest 128kbps test, where Ogg Vorbis fared better. Well, I mainly meant higher bitrate levels - consistently transparent levels, like in the most recent test (I think) of Guru's. There mpc still reigns fairly dominant (according to the test). Btw, could someone throw a link to this latest 128k test? QUOTE It also turned out in this thread there as of now there is no way to cut MPC files let alone I suppose to join them (although I might be wrong). Can't really say it just turned out; it's been like one eternal question about mpc, popping up once in a while in the forum - as said, mpc's development hasn't progressed for ages. So, the reasons for mpc's high support lie elsewhere. -------------------- XMPlay rocks! www.un4seen.com
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Sep 7 2004, 01:08
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Group: Members Posts: 367 Joined: 16-November 03 Member No.: 9867 |
QUOTE (Pike84 @ Sep 6 2004, 02:24 PM) Btw, could someone throw a link to this latest 128k test? Here you go! |
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Oct 25 2004, 23:32
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 Group: Members Posts: 434 Joined: 31-October 03 From: Europe, CZ Member No.: 9571 |
I'm still sticking with MP3 --aps, because of the wide HW support. I was considering to go for Ogg Vorbis but unfortunately I'm still confused with those many various compiles and "transparent settings" so for me it's not enough clear to move to Ogg Vorbis.
I hope one day it might be clearer and Ogg Vorbis would be more supported by HW then I'll go with Ogg Vorbis... To this day I'm using Monkey's Audio for lossless but I'll consider to convert to FLAC... The future will show us the way! 
-------------------- Sorry for my poor English, I'm trying to get better... ;)
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled, was convincing the world he didn't exist." |
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Oct 30 2004, 20:07
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I'm using MP2 (Musicam @384 kbps) for compatibility and transparency.
And happy with that !
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Oct 30 2004, 22:06
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 Group: Members Posts: 256 Joined: 22-April 03 From: just west of san fran Member No.: 6131 |
Use to be MP3/FLAC, but on OS X, FLAC playback is pretty much just regulated to VLC (well for active projects) and its volume implementation isn't the best. With the release of ALAC, I'm pretty much AAC/ALAC now. Compared to LAME, its very quick to encode a new bitrate from lossless through iTunes.
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Oct 31 2004, 06:19
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i learned this the hard way!
best quality doesn't mean it will certainly gain HW/industry support last time i voted for MPC becoz i archive my songs to mpc --standard is cool = around 180kbps and its transparent to me but now i voted for AAC! Industry! I hate ISO! mp3 10 yrs ago is pretty bad right? but mp3 still lives today! why? Internatinal standard, HW support etc......... it takes yrs for WMA is just dominate around 20% of the share mp3 still yield a whopping 70+% according to cnet's page. M$ finally surrender to mp3 and added mp3 ripping support in windows media player 10_ hehehe M$ is afraid that ppl will not use WMP as it doesn't support mp3 AAC is quite succesful to gain ~5% share after apple launch its music store for windows recently even in this poll, AAC is catching up! in my opinion, (prediction) lossless format that can last for a long long long long long time = PCM Lossy formats that can last = Mp3 (Mp2/Mp1) WMA/WMA Pro AAC in mp4 container Vorbis in ogg container mpc is definitely not a good solution for portable just do some decoding test with dBpowerAMP converter WMA 096kbps CBR 76X WMA 128kbps CBR 72X WMA 160kbps CBR 67X WMA 320kbps CBR 50X WMA Pro 128kbps 2pass VBR 47X OGG 092kbps VBR 69X OGG 122kbps VBR 62X OGG 166kbps VBR 55X OGG 180kbps VBR 56X OGG 309kbps VBR 43X AAC 096kbps ABR 50X AAC 128kbps ABR 50X AAC 160kbps ABR 48X AAC 320kbps ABR 42X Mp3 128kbps CBR 17X (something wrong, decoder too slow compared to FhG acm) MPC 146kbps VBR 23X NOTE : decoded with P4 1.4 GHz OGG Vorbis is really excellent at "portable" bitrates 128-192kbps which should use less bettery than AAC around that bitrate according to this test but OGG Vorbis decoding is on a par with AAC above 300kbps WMA, oh my god, very very fast.......no wonder it produces crappy sound! WMA PRo which can produce much better quality seem to loose to AAC n OGG Vorbis in decoding speed |
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Oct 31 2004, 07:40
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Group: Members Posts: 371 Joined: 10-August 04 From: Canada Member No.: 16174 |
QUOTE (kotrtim @ Oct 30 2004, 11:19 PM) mpc is definitely not a good solution for portable just do some decoding test with dBpowerAMP converter Great, now I'm totally confused...  http://www.foobar2000.org/foospeed/ |
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