Anyways, the files are smaller and sound quite good but there is not a lot of support for portable players that you can take with you in your car or on vacation so you are basically stuck if you have a lot of .ogg files. you could convert them to mp3 which would certainly make them sound good, but the more you convert something, the worse it will sound. it's like taping an album for a friend and copying that copy for yourself and then copying that copy of a copy...by the time you get to the third generation, the quality goes way down.
So stick to source material whenever possible.
At 11:08 AM 6/8/2004, you wrote:
Hi Jim,
Ogg vorbis is an alternative way to encode sound files for use on a computer. It's like MP3 in that it's a compressed, and therefore "lossy" format. The "beauty" of the format however is that it's open sauce, I.E. not proprietary software, and therefore it's free to distribute unlike most mp3 codex's. Also the equivalent quality of audio is better when the same sample rate is used as compared to MP3. This means that for files of the same audio quality, a lower sample rate and bit rate can be used, thus the files are smaller.
The downsides at the moment are, first that it's not that widely used, and isn't really taking off at a fast rate, and second that not many hardware MP3 players/recorders support it Goldwave sound forge and winamp will all play/record in .ogg (ogg vorbis) format.
Rob.
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