Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/02/07 15:43

"Eeyore" wrote...
> Jack wrote:
>> You're tilting at windmills. Listen to the dadburned files! I just
>> closed
>> my eyes and heard the difference even better. The MP3 is
>> significantly
>> cleaner than the WMA, which isn't usually the case with those formats
>> at
>> 128 kbps.
>
> Why are you even bothering with 128 kbps files ? They're a waste of
> time.

That is exactly what I was thinking about this entire discussion.
WMA (and MP3 and Ogg, etc etc) is what it is. If you don't
like how it sounds on some particular music, then bump the
bitrate or use some other encoding. End of discussion.
Unless you are developing audio compression codecs, in
which case, this is the wrong newsgroup.

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