Which lossy format are you using?, Poll version 2 |
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Which lossy format are you using?, Poll version 2 |
 Aug 5 2004, 21:04
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Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 5-August 04 Member No.: 16058  |
mpc 1.14, --quality 6 --xlevel. ideal for me :-D
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Aug 5 2004, 21:28
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 Group: Members Posts: 487 Joined: 5-August 02 From: Manila Member No.: 2939 |
i picked mp3.
looking at the current results, i'm suprised that mpc still holds the top spot. i guess most HA members would sacrifice hardware compatibility for quality. also suprising is vorbis still trailing behind mp3 and mpc despite recent availability of hardware players. it might be too early to tell though. 
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Aug 5 2004, 21:31
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Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 26-October 01 From: Germany Member No.: 352 |
I still prefer the stable quality of MPC at moderate bitrates, but with latest development Vorbis really get's my interrest again. Lossless is not quite right for me, yet. I'd prefer FLAC or Wavpack though.
Regards; ilikedirt |
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Aug 5 2004, 22:12
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 175 Joined: 6-May 02 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 1985 |
I voted lossless, because that's what I use most of the times. After several years of ripping and encoding I got tired of grabbing the same cd again from one of my shelfs to encode in some (exotic) format for whatever reason. I bought a big hd, and a second one is on his way and the plan is to rip my collection one final time. Transcoding then is clean and easy.
I do use lossy though. I weekly record two shows from fm radio that I encode to mp3, so I can make my friends happy who still use mp3 only. My favorit lossy codec is mpc though, great quality, fast encoding, etc etc. Lossless is the best solution for me, but lossy is more fun. 
-------------------- http://digitalx.org
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 Aug 5 2004, 23:19
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 Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 21-June 04 From: France Member No.: 14808 |
Primary use : listening to music from my computer exclusively, I'm no fan of portable devices, not enough room to keep my CD collection at home, not enough GB of hard disk to go lossless.
Xing Mp3 long ago (  ), then Lame -aps, then a few tries with Ahead AAC...now MusePack q6 and I'm quite satisfied with it. This post has been edited by HotShot~: Aug 5 2004, 23:19 -------------------- Newborn MPC, Matroska and Foobar enthusiast.
Thanks to all the authors and developers =) |
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Aug 6 2004, 12:09
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 Group: Members Posts: 119 Joined: 27-January 03 From: Perth, AU Member No.: 4755 |
Hardware support is very essential to me. MP3 therefore is still my choice. Anyway, I use MP4-AAC in my computer.
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 Aug 6 2004, 15:09
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 Group: Developer Posts: 1245 Joined: 16-December 02 From: Australia Member No.: 4097 |
Last time, I chose Ogg Vorbis. And again, in this poll, I'm choosing Ogg Vorbis again, though I am using iTunes AAC for my brand new iPod now. So Ogg Vorbis is mainly for computer listening as well my expermental tunings.
 Ogg Vorbis is free, is open source, and has a lot of potential for further improvement, as aoTuV recently demonstrated. Now if only someone managed to optimise Tremor for the ARM7, then Ogg Vorbis support on the iPod is within reach (currently it runs at 80% realtime)
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Aug 6 2004, 16:01
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 Group: Members Posts: 143 Joined: 13-July 03 From: Paris, France Member No.: 7740 |
I use Wavpack lossy, 450 kbps (wavpack -b 450 -h -x). Because I often need to transcode and I can't afford lossless archival.
-------------------- Stupidity is root of all evil.
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Aug 7 2004, 01:33
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 Group: Members Posts: 1037 Joined: 23-May 02 From: DE Member No.: 2107 |
Ogg Vorbis
to me the most complete encoder that has good overall quality. i tried aac when vorbis development was almost dead but i have to say that was very dificult to do simple things like tagging or replaygain. not to mention that there are several formats or containers that can only be played with certain players. i can't remember exactly what it was and if it still is a problem but to me it seems just more easy to drop a wave file into oggdrop and that's it. i can play those files on any platform and my ihp140 hardware player plays them also. other codecs like aac may have better quality but i just like vorbis for it's completeness. it's just working. (not to mention what the 128kb test showed) but this are just my personal preferences i don't want to sound offending against other codecs. This post has been edited by Xenion: Aug 7 2004, 01:35 |
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Aug 7 2004, 03:58
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 Group: Members Posts: 148 Joined: 27-October 02 From: Buenos Aires Member No.: 3626 |
I voted Ogg Vorbis. I was impressed by the aotuv improvements at low bitrates, making it really good to my ears at around 128kbps, it is my format of choice at this average bitrate. I don´t have a portable myself, but it´s a good reason to choose Vorbis if I ever get one.
For music I feel is really important to me (less than 1% of the albums I have access to), I still use lossless archiving (usually Monkey´s Audio CD Image, but also started to experiment with FLAC). Anyway since portability is not an issue for me, I like to experiment with different formats, using Musepack and MP4-AAC whenever I feel the urge to do it .I´d say since the aotuv tunings, for general music Vorbis -q4 sounds really good to me. -------------------- No se porqué
imaginé que estabamos unidos y me sentí mejor pero aquí estoy tan solo en la vida que mejor me voy |
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Aug 7 2004, 04:18
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Group: Members Posts: 155 Joined: 11-December 02 From: Alberta Member No.: 4049 |
MP3 all the way (at least until 2006). I like AAC and Vorbis, they have GREAT potetial but I still choose to rip in MP3, and preset -extreme sounds BEAUTIFUL in my krappy ears
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-------------------- still LAME 3.96.1 --preset extreme -q 0 -V 0 -m s at least until 2005.
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Aug 7 2004, 06:04
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Group: Members Posts: 568 Joined: 10-July 03 From: Australia Member No.: 7693 |
Appreciated the new Poll.
Windows Media Audio 9 Professional VBR Quality 75, 44 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit 1-pass VBR Cheers, McoreD This post has been edited by ~*McoreD*~: Aug 7 2004, 06:05 |
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Aug 7 2004, 09:01
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 Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 24-July 04 Member No.: 15728 |
I hate mp3 format,but it is seen everywhere.
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Aug 7 2004, 09:02
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 552 Joined: 9-June 04 From: A place long since forgotten... Member No.: 14572 |
I can't say I hate the mp3 format since LAME has brought it up to be quite transparent with aps. I can say I hate most of the 128kbit mp3s on the internet. I'm more than happy to teach people how to encode with LAME and actually taught someone yesterday.
-------------------- Nero AAC 1.5.1.0: -q0.45
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Aug 7 2004, 17:03
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 Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 25-September 03 From: 5 pixel to the right, 3 down Member No.: 9013 |
voted for vorbis since i have a iriver that i fill with vorbis and also use vorbis for video encodings.
I also keep a backup archive of my CDs where newer rips are mpc and older ones mp3. This is just for in case i damage a CD or lose one which unfortunately happens or at least happened a lot in the past. But i listen almost exclusively from the iriver nowadays (and therefore mostly vorbis) because i dont need to run a software player like this and can leave it running all day without having to change disks all the time. -------------------- i was into audio a bit, but i lost myself and found me again in video
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Aug 7 2004, 18:13
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 Group: Members Posts: 274 Joined: 1-January 03 From: Old Europe Member No.: 4353 |
still Ogg Vorbis and I don't think I'll change!
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Aug 7 2004, 18:44
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 Group: Members Posts: 159 Joined: 17-January 02 From: Cork, Ireland Member No.: 1067 |
I rip to FLAC for PC use, and to MP3 alt preset extreme for my portable (although standard would probably be sufficient)
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Aug 7 2004, 18:49
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 Group: Banned Posts: 1131 Joined: 19-September 02 Member No.: 3407 |
I voted for mp3 as its still the main codec I use. However the real picture is like this:
Archiving, Home listening - Flac Portable mp3, but it would be aac/mp4 if I had a portable player which played aac files I have noticed someone voted for "other", whats "other"? |
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Aug 7 2004, 19:22
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 Rarewares admin Group: Members Posts: 7515 Joined: 30-September 01 From: Brazil Member No.: 81 |
QUOTE (JEN @ Aug 7 2004, 02:49 PM) I have noticed someone voted for "other", whats "other"?  Anything that doesn't fit the others. WAV, ADPCM, WavPack and OptimFrog lossy, some of the bizarre stuff you can find at ReallyRareWares... -------------------- Get up-to-date binaries of Lame, AAC, Vorbis and much more at RareWares:
http://www.rarewares.org |
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Aug 7 2004, 19:26
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 Group: Members (Donating) Posts: 676 Joined: 5-June 02 From: New York Member No.: 2224 |
QUOTE (rjamorim @ Aug 7 2004, 01:22 PM) QUOTE (JEN @ Aug 7 2004, 02:49 PM) I have noticed someone voted for "other", whats "other"? Anything that doesn't fit the others. WAV, ADPCM, WavPack and OptimFrog lossy, some of the bizarre stuff you can find at ReallyRareWares... Maybe somebody encodes their music with MS ADPCM 4:1 or mu-law
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Aug 7 2004, 20:36
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 Group: Members Posts: 22 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Poland Member No.: 8528 |
I use Musepack Xlevel Quality 6
Earlier - Musepack Quality 5 Much earlier: MP3 -------------------- Fear my anger. fear my power.
I'm Dark Angel undercover. |
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Aug 7 2004, 20:40
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 Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 1-December 02 From: India Member No.: 3948 |
I would love to shift to Musepack, but it currently has no hardware support AFAIK. That's why I am sticking with MP3. Besides, for me, LAME 3.90.3 APS MP3s are transparent enough.
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Aug 7 2004, 20:47
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 LGPL code thief Group: Members Posts: 85 Joined: 7-August 04 From: Bucharest, Romania Member No.: 16089 |
Same for me.
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Aug 8 2004, 04:58
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 Group: Members Posts: 1495 Joined: 31-January 04 Member No.: 11664 |
In the beginning i made a lot of mistakes and ended up ripping multiple times. I still haven't finished. Now everything is ripped to Flac, transcoded to mpc q5 for listening then the flacs are archived to dvd. I could have even stored them on cd-r a year ago.
I may even use hybrid lossy for listening and transcoding but its hard to give up the quality / size bargain of mpc. No matter which route you choose - rip it once. |
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Aug 8 2004, 05:20
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Group: Members Posts: 1495 Joined: 31-January 04 Member No.: 11664 |
Forgot: I still use mp3 for discman portable. Settings are lame 3.96.1 apfm / apfs -Y / apfs, transcoded from mpc or lossless.
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