Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th May 2005 18:29 UTC
Are you looking at buying a truly affordable & expandable mp3 player with an LCD screen & FM radio that just works? SanDisk's newest mp3 player Sansa might just be what you were looking for!
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These people don't care (or understand) that going from a lossy format to another lossy format results in a severe loss of quality, but in their minds, it is justified because OGG is a free/open format, whereas MP3 is closed and evil.
I don't care. All my rips are in ogg format. I reencoded 128kbps mp3s to 256kpbs oggs and got no noticable loss in quality. In fact, it smoothed out the harsh high-pitch screech I heard from the mp3s. So not all lossy reencodes cause additional noticable distortion.
Its always preferable to encode direct from uncompressed sources. DVD reencoding, for example, will never be better than an encode from the uncompressed source, but until we have 100GB discs we won't be able to distribute uncompressed video. And even when we do have that technology no MPAA affiliates will give you uncompressed and unencrypted video. But all CDs are uncompressed, so we encode them to FLAC for lossless and ogg for royalty and financially free 10+:1 compression.
128kbps oggs sound just fine. Even 64kbps is bearable. MP3s at those data rates sound like crap.
BTW, I'm a zealot. All you hippie zealot haters seem to barely understand this tech. Go read a book or something.