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View Poll Results: Which music format is the BEST?
Hi,
I just have a few general questions about the different file formats.
1.) Whats the difference between the file encoding? (file size, quality, etc between mp3, ogg, wma, etc)
2.) If variable or constant bitrate better?
3.) Which formats do you use? (mp3, wma, ogg, wav, etc) (128, 164, 256kbps... etc)
I like to use mp3s because they are universally understood. No messy file conversions until your ready to burn them on a CD.. if you do that kind of thing.
Yeah, mp3 is just sorta the default format now a days. However, I also really like atrac3 off of a wav. Wav's are bad because they're big, but atrac3 gives you comparable quality (lossless compression) at a size at or below mp3.
yeah i like ogg better, but the fact that most mp3 player do not support oggg is kind of sh*ty, therefore the only that i know that supports ogg are IRiver IHP and Rio Karma. I would like 2 c iPod supporting ogg but at current time it doesn't.
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