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By: Marco Raaphorst » Blog Archive » Ogg support van Brad Sucks?

Marco Raaphorst » Blog Archive » Ogg support van Brad Sucks? — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:14:49 +0000

[...] Commons hitmaker Brad Sucks overweegt om zijn muziek in het Ogg-formaat aan te bieden. Dat geldt overigens ook voor [...]

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staging.marcoraaphorst.nl » Blog Archive » Brad Sucks op Ogg? — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:39:06 +0000

[...] Sucks overweegt om zijn muziek in het Ogg-formaat aan te bieden. Net als ikzelf [...]

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Fri, 18 May 2007 19:32:37 +0000

I love Ogg, which is better than Mp3 (Fraunhofer). But Flash lacks support for Ogg, so there’s not (yet) a simple way to embed it on a webpage. Hope this will change one day…

By: aharden

aharden — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:29:29 +0000

OK, so we shouldn’t use Vorbis because FLAC is lossless and who needs lossy codecs anyways? Please. Ogg Vorbis has been superior to MP3 bitrate-for-bitrate for years, has more flexible metadata than MP3, and is great for applications like streaming. The only reason I don’t use it more is because of the lack of mainstream hardware support. I can only assume hardware manufacturers would rather pay MP3 usage royalties to questionable entities rather than spend a few R&D bucks to support an open, patent-free codec.

MP3s and CDs aren’t going away. The question is: when will they become irrelevant?

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:44:37 +0000

kaddar: I’ve never noticed much of a difference between FLAC and a well-encoded, high-bitrate MP3, but I haven’t paid much attention.

Silus: I signed up for Disc Revolt a while back, looked very nice. They weren’t shipping their free cards to Canada though and I got lazy.

It’s a cool idea, I’m big into the idea of simple tokens replacing CDs. My little Brad Sucks buttons have been my first stab at that.

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:11:04 +0000

Hey Brad… Ogg is a great start, glad you’re on the wagon.

Have you checked-out Disk Revolt?

http://www.discrevolt.com/

Pretty cool concept… and is probably just up your alley.

: )

By: kaddar

kaddar — Fri, 18 May 2007 15:07:26 +0000

I really like FLAC encoding, because it is lossless.

File sizes can be rather large though.