Posted by Eeyore on 12/02/07 16:37

Richard Crowley wrote:

> "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.

PC World UK has 250GB drives for just £45.

You'll get about 420 CDs on that *uncompressed* for 11 pence each !

Why on earth bother with compression ?

Graham

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