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What's best?
MPEG Layer-3 (MP3)
 
 70.4%, 19 votes
Ogg Vorbis (OGG)
 
 29.6%, 8 votes
Windows Media Audio (WMA)   0.0%, 0 vote
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Posted on 12-25-04 08:46 AM Link | Quote
I'd have to go with MP3 but only because of its penetration. I've always wanted to try OGG but it's not like I end up with a ton of matches when I go on a music search.

I'm willing to give OGG a chance, but virtually anything out there that has to do with music/home theatre supports MP3's now, so...
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Posted on 12-25-04 08:53 AM Link | Quote
OGG, and I'll tell you why:

1) Sounds exactly the same as MP3
2) Overall better quality than MP3
3) OPEN SOURCE! No royalties, completely public domain.

I'm in the (long) process of converting the majority of my MP3's (good gig and a half of em), and I've already saved 460 megs. I'm about half done converting as is. There's two downsides: 1, burning software does not yet recognize it as audio; 2, CD, DVD, and other suchs players do not yet know the format, so it's basically a PC only format for the time being.


My two cents...
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Posted on 12-25-04 06:30 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by HyperHacker
Total number of stereos I have that play MP3s: 1
Total number of stereos I have that play OGGs: 0
Total number of stereos I have that play WMAs: 0
Total number of portables I have that play MP3s: 1
Total number of portables I have that play OGGs: 0
Total number of portables I have that play WMAs: 0

Simple math.

Also, WMA has DRM. That alone makes it suck. Then there's other crap.


Well, many prtables these days CAN play WMA but not that I have one myself.

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Posted on 12-25-04 09:45 PM Link | Quote
I rarely download music... just rip it from my own CDs, so I can easily use OGG files any time

Converting your MP3s into OGG will not be advantagous, but more likely disadvantagous. You'll lose quality in the conversion.
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Posted on 12-26-04 05:54 AM Link | Quote
Three simple little letters for you. SHN. Superior to all formats above and lossless!
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Posted on 12-26-04 04:17 PM Link | Quote
OGGs are cool, but I chose MP3s, as it is the most popular right now. Only my Goldie Lookin' Chain and UT2k4 soundtracks use OGG
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Posted on 12-26-04 09:06 PM Link | Quote
Where is the other option, I use none of them, AAC rules.
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Posted on 12-26-04 09:48 PM Link | Quote
Screw all that, I just keep an orchestra with me at all times. Or OGG.
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Posted on 12-26-04 09:53 PM Link | Quote
MP3, just because thats what I use and I am a narrow minded sunnuvabitch.
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Posted on 12-27-04 02:28 AM Link | Quote
To you people who dont have a player for OGG (or almost ANY other format), get Foobar2000. It plays everything you could think of. As for the format question, I hate WMA, lags on my comp for some reason (may just be because of WMP). MP3 is great IMO. And OGG, well I have only ever had one song in OGG format and it sounded exactly like mp3.

What about APE? (Monkey Audio) is it good?
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