wheezl wrote:
After making an OS X box my main machine instead of FreeBSD I found iTunes inability to play ogg/vorbis to be a real pisser.. so I googled and came up with this.. works like a charm (though not useful for the iPod people)
ive tried this decoder for iTunes/quicktime and the playback was all but smooth! i think i was running 10.2.0 at the time [my powerbook is in for service right now] so i dont know if that had something to do with it. but the playback was barely even listenable, the audio was cutting in and out and skipping. let me know if any of you that use this have better luck, as ive ripped a lot of my cd's to OGG [my other system is a PC] and was somewhat dissapointed that id have to rip it all to mp3 again through iTunes [not that this is THAT much worse, just tedious and larger files].
cocopelli wrote:
I know this is a little off topic but I remember hearing about orr/vorbis a couple of years ago and how it was supposed to be the latest greatest thing but then I didnt really hear much after that. Now the big thing seems to be MPEG4. My question is as of right now what is the best format in terms of quality and compression? is ogg/vorbis better than MP3? MP4? where can I find programs that can rip ogg/vorbis or MP4? Sorry for all the ?'s.
well i got into OGG Vorbis because of the now resolved mp3 license scare. but i still use it because the quality IS infact higher and file sizes are smaller than an mp3 at the same average bitrate [much like mp4 i assume...?]. i still have mp3's from music ive downloaded, but i have a lot of CD's that i still rip to .ogg. some poeple wont want to go this route if they have a portable mp3 player, but it works for me cause i use a minidisc player and i dont necessarily need music in mp3 format to be able to use it with the MD. youll prbably be fine with mp3 but theyre just going to take up a lot more space when it all adds up, besides converting mp3's to ogg or even mp4 is pointless or obvious lossy-compression reasons. hope that helps.
