I've been using allofmp3 quite a bit for the last half year, but now my trust has been shattered: without notifying their customers they just changed their ogg vorbis encoder to use the

Xiph.Org/Sjeng.Org libVorbis I 20031230 (GTune 3 beta 2)

codec instead of the

Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20030909
(1.0.1)

they had been using until then. This happend sometime between June 4th and June 23rd. Its been 883MB of files before I noticed, and yes, I code at a relevant setting (Q5).

Besides me not liking a company just using a beta-version encoder in a commercial setting... what would the "Pro's" here at hydrogen say to somehting like this?

I don´t know what a "Pro" may think about this

Personally I think it´s a good thing as GTune is usually considered to deliver higher-quality encodes than plain Vorbis 1.0.1 at certain quality-levels.

From what I understand, the GarfTuned version performs identical to the official version in sub q5 and better than the official version in q5 or better.

GT3b2 is "HA recommened" Vorbis encoder at quality 5 or above. It certainly improves quality compared to 1.0.1 (especially pre-echo).