what's your favorite audio format?

[tommyj27]

what's your favorite audio format?

 

[Dave]

mp3's only cause thats all i got

 

[equinoxe3d]

Would be tie between MP3 and Vorbis. Nothin' in the world like a smooth ABR 175kbps LAME 3.93-encoded MP3, or a 160kbps OGG file .

WMA was promising, but Microsoft bastardized and killed it to the core IMO...

On the uncommon side, I still like tracker module formats (IT, MOD, S3M, XM) very much.

 

[tommyj27]

i liked wma a lot, until i switched to linux, and making them play with xmms (winamp clone) became a bitch and a half, so i switched to vorbis and i've been happy ever since, although i need a much faster puter so i can encode in real time, that's kind of a drag

 

[Luis G]

mp3 is great.............too bad VQF is no longer used

 

[Gato_Solo]

Analog, baby!!!

 

[Shadowfax]

ogg is better than mp3 when it comes to quality...although the mp3's i make are pretty ok as well
but mp3 is widely used, so that got my vote

 

[Aunty Em]

ogg is better than mp3 when it comes to quality...although the mp3's i make are pretty ok as well
but mp3 is widely used, so that got my vote

Ogg for the better quality, but I have mainly mp3s.

 

[tommyj27]

although the mp3's i make are pretty ok as well

admittedly mp3s encoded with a decent encoder like lame sound pretty good, unfortunately that doesn't seem to constitute the majority of mp3s floating around
i'm just waiting to see who releases a portable ogg player first, i've already moved from mp3 to wma to ogg and i'm not going to maintain my entire music library in both mp3 and ogg

 

[equinoxe3d]

I'm just waiting to see who releases a portable ogg player first, i've already moved from mp3 to wma to ogg and i'm not going to maintain my entire music library in both mp3 and ogg

Some players like the IRiver SlimX ones can support OGG Vorbis via a firmware upgrade, as it's probably also the case with some other firmware-upgradable players

 

[tommyj27]

I heard that IRiver was working on a firmware update but i hadn't heard it was released, might have to buy myself yet another christmas present

 

[tommyj27]

Q. Do the iMP series CD players support Ogg Vorbis and/or MP3Pro?

A. At this time, time iMP series CD players do not support Ogg Vorbis and/or MP3Pro. Our Research and Development team has these codecs under consideration to support in the future.

 

[freako104]

none of the above i like cds. ill buy an mp3 player for only single songs but otherwise i want cds.

 

[Berserker]

MP3 still's the best and the most cheapest media that I can download free these days..
other things needs money of course...

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