George, that is the one I have used. My best suggestion is just take one CD and try it that way, then compare for yourself. Should be roughly 60% of the size, and sound equal or maybe a little better. Don’t go through your whole collection right away, just try the one CD. If you don’t hear a difference, and you’re not worried about space on your Fuze and/or hard drive, then keep using what you used all along. It’s a PITA to re-rip the entire CD collection:smiley:
ps. if only WMP had given us the VBR option with MP3, I would never have gone through all this.
Message Edited by Marvin_Martian on 01-03-2009 12:51 PM
If listening tests alone aren’t enough to convince a person that ogg vorbis is vastly superior to mp3, you should take a visual waveform display comparison between the two formats sometime. The results are quite eye-opening…
If listening tests alone aren’t enough to convince a person that ogg vorbis is vastly superior to mp3, you should take a visual waveform display comparison between the two formats sometime. The results are quite eye-opening…
You may not hear a difference between ogg vorbis and other music formats…But…scientifically and clinically it is the superior lossy format right now.
Repectfully then . . . if you can’t hear the difference, what is the point?
I said “you” not me. I definitely can hear a difference… I know I have extraordinary hearing; but not everyone is so blessed (or cursed) For me, most Mp3 files are painful to listen to…
If listening tests alone aren’t enough to convince a person that ogg vorbis is vastly superior to mp3, you should take a visual waveform display comparison between the two formats sometime. The results are quite eye-opening…
You may not hear a difference between ogg vorbis and other music formats…But…scientifically and clinically it is the superior lossy format right now.
Repectfully then . . . if you can’t hear the difference, what is the point?
I said “you” not me. I definitely can hear a difference… I know I have extraordinary hearing; but not everyone is so blessed (or cursed) For me, most Mp3 files are painful to listen to…
Tapeworm,
I thought I use to be that good! Home audio vintage hi end speakers driving the dealers nuts with in home speaker auditions for weeks on end to find the right pair of speakers. I was lucky enough to know the dealer real well. Setting things up just right. 12AWG speaker cord… Then came mid life… Big screen TV and surround sound 7.1 screwed up the works for my audio room/ living room. It never sounded the same with that big screen in it. !! Also came age!! I’m 51 years old now and my ears are much more forgiving then they ever had been… So I can enjoy much more then i ever could… LOL!!! fuze_oner-GB ,Just give it some time and you too will be able to enjoy things you never could stand to hear before!! George
I can thank my mother for my outstanding hearing. She’s 81 and can still hear a pin drop without a hearing aid. I’ll be 53 in a couple of weeks, and I just had my hearing tested. The doctor said that my hearing is better than most pre-teen girls he has tested.
@fuze_owner_gb wrote:
The doctor said that my hearing is better than most pre-teen girls he has tested.
My doctor said the same thing about my arm strength.
(I’ll be 50 this year)
Ogg really is quite impressive, though I’m not sure its hugely better than AAC. I converted several albums to 128kbps ogg just to save space. I can’t play it on anything but the computer & Fuze, though, so I’ll still end up keeping an MP3 copy for other things. Its another one of those codecs with compatibility issues (even worse than WMA or AAC).
You mentioned about using Ogg v2…how can you tell which version is being used?
I guess thats why its a non issue for me… Ill be 21 this year and have been in the music industry professionally since I was 13, and playing music since I was 7. I got my ears checked yesterday (I do every 3 months for work) and I hear 60% average for my age is mid 90s so I guess I cant hear enough for the difference to matter.
@fuze_owner_gb wrote:
The doctor said that my hearing is better than most pre-teen girls he has tested.
My doctor said the same thing about my arm strength.
(I’ll be 50 this year)
Ogg really is quite impressive, though I’m not sure its hugely better than AAC. I converted several albums to 128kbps ogg just to save space. I can’t play it on anything but the computer & Fuze, though, so I’ll still end up keeping an MP3 copy for other things. Its another one of those codecs with compatibility issues (even worse than WMA or AAC).
You mentioned about using Ogg v2…how can you tell which version is being used?
Message Edited by bdb on 01-03-2009 06:49 PM
The original codec is oggenc.exe and V2 is oggenc2.exe. Another easy way to tell which codec is in place, is if the maximum setting in your software is roughly 300kbps sampling rate; you know you are using V1. Version 2 of Ogg has the capability of 500kbps sampling rates. Everything a person needs to get set up with ogg vorbis is available at the Official Ogg Vorbis Website
Message Edited by fuze_owner-GB on 01-04-2009 06:21 AM
