Well, I personallly am not completely against the WMA file format, however, in gards to file storage, I prefer personally to use ogg vorbis as its quality management is at a higher and superior way than Microsofts method in the Windows Media Audio files. I would never use FLAC myself and haven't touched it. But, in the other instance of streaming, AAC+ is my choice of an interesting encoder. I wouldn't use it all the time mind you, but it is quite good in its regard of quality management at low bitrates. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 5:52 AM Subject: Re: Windows Media Audio
>I don't have an anti-MicroSoft bias, I just hate Windows Media. I use OGG > Vorbis where possible, which my Victor Classic Plus will play, and my only > portable player is my Book Port which doesn't support Windows Media. I use > FLAC for storage purposes only, so it doesn't matter if a portable unit > can decode it or not, and again, my portable can't play Windows Media > anyway. Every experience I've had with Windows Media has resulted in a > slightly warbly sound with a rather penetrating high end. These are just > my personal experiences, and maybe things have improved since I had said > experiences. > > Bruce > > -- > Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he > gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12 NIV > > Bruce Toews > E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net > Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net > Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2006, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > >> Hi Bruce. >> >> The obvious advantages are: >> WMA is supported by many players and is probably the next most supported >> format to MP3 >> WMA supports ID3 tags and so is supported by many software music >> databases >> for managing music collections >> WMA can be burned directly to audio CD's because most burning software >> programs support direct conversion from WMA to CDDA - I'm not aware of >> any >> that will do this for Flak >> WMA sounds damn good - there has been some subjective discussion here on >> the >> comparison between MP3 and WMA, some of which seems very anti-Microsoft >> based tripe rather than objective considerations and evidence based. The >> fact is that MP3 is the oldest encoding technology around and lacks the >> recent development that's been put into more modern encoders such as WMA. >> It's true that DRM is a driver for music sites to adopt WMA but you can't >> sell crap quality music so it would not make sense for the industry to >> adopt >> a technology that wasn't going to provide the best quality for the best >> file >> size. I've personally done much testing over the past 5 to 6 years and >> have >> switched from MP3 to WMA based on the evidence of playback on my >> computer, >> on my portable player and on my Linn hi-fi. It was painful to rip my >> collection all over but I can tell you that the difference in quality is >> absolutely apparent and that pain has been rewarded. >> >> Regards. >> >> Kevin >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:26 PM >> Subject: RE: Windows Media Audio >> >> >> Does WMA Lossless ahve any advantage over FLAC or vice versa? >> >> Bruce >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we > offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
