Hardware music players (was: Moving files)

pll at lanminds.com pll at lanminds.com
Mon Jan 6 13:54:31 EST 2003


In a message dated: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 13:40:33 EST
bscott at ntisys.com said:

>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, at 1:34pm, mkomarinski at wayga.org wrote:
>> Bah.  If the OGG is at a higher rate than the MP3 (say 192kbps OGG to
>> 128kb MP3) then you shouldn't notice anything.
>
>  I find that audio converted from one lossy format to another sounds like
>crap.  I am told that is because the lossy compression algorithms depend on
>the higher resolution of the original source to work their magic, but for
>all I know, it could be because my computer doesn't like me.

No, you're right.  It's one thing to go from wav->mp3 or wav->ogg, 
but to go from wav->ogg->mp3 or wav->mp3->ogg the resultant file will 
sound much like Derek thinks my perl code looks :)
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