On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:58:48 -0500, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Pigeon wrote: >> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 12:28:14 -0500, sean finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>>also, if you're debating whether or not you should go to ogg, i highly >>>reccommend it. first of all, it's a free codec, and many people don't >>>know that mp3 actually isn't free. secondly, it's a _better_ codec, >>>with better audio quality in less disk space, among other reasons. >> >> >> It also means you're not supporting the commercial minidisc/MP3player >> axis. This is a Good Thing, because it makes it more likely that >> Moore's Law will kill off this whole horrid, horrid, horrid >> lossy-audio-compression idea before it gets to the point of being >> impossible to buy a supposedly full-rate CD that hasn't been munged by >> some horrid lossy codec at some stage in its production. I fear this >> will be a close-run thing, and soon. >> >> Pigeon >> >Ummm, you do realize that ogg is lossy as well, right? Sure I do. But it's _free_; it's not a commercial product; it's not something that Sony and pals can use to make money out of a technically ignorant population who until fairly recently didn't have too much objection to fourth-generation copies of compact cassettes. (Many still don't!) >From: Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Actually, Moore's "Law" has nothing to do with storage space or bandwidth, >more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today. I was using the expression in its looser sense, as applied to areas of technology other than processors which undergo the same sort of rapid advance. How long before a 128Mb flash memory card is as quaint a piece of obsolete junk as a 128Mb hard drive is now? You can get MP3 players with 20Gb hard drives in them - local shops don't seem to sell 20Gb hard drives anymore. Compare the capacities of a CD and a DVD. Compressing audio is probably going to be fairly pointless soon. I don't quite see why more storage space should be needed for music collections today. I've seen some pretty vast stacks of LPs and compact cassettes. >Kirk Strauser >In Googlis non est, ergo non est. How many Googles? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
