No, I can't say that I do, so I'm not the person to ask. I co my radio show in OGG Vorbis, and the podcasts are in MP3 for the sake of the most compatibility.
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, Gary Wood wrote: > Hi Bruce! Do you use the AAC format, and if you do, what do you think about > it? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Toews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:52 PM > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
