On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:49:20 +0000, Alex Butcher
wrote:

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 00:03:29 +0000, pmailkeey wrote:

On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:55:48 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:

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What recommendations would people make for formats? MP3. WMA, Real
Audio? I only want to convert my Cd's once so I'd like to pick the
best format.

.wav - but it ain't compressed ! I'm currently favouring MP3 over WMA.
The latter being produced by Windows Media Player and not so good. Of
course there may be quality options to tweak in each format. I've a few
.wav files - for when I feel like it.

Or FLAC http://flac.sourceforge.net/ which is as lossless as the
original CD.

If you want greater compression rations, then Ogg Vorbis
http://www.vorbis.com/ is generally regarded as better quality than MP3
for the same bitrate.

Since ogg is the container format and vorbis the audio, an interesting
variation I use is ogg flac, which gives the benefits of the ogg container
(ie multiple headers, better tagging) with lossless compression.

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