Audio formats (was Re: [nzlug] how to get grip to rip to mp3's)

[Hadley Rich]

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 16:37, Michael Adams wrote:
> As alternatives (unless you are ripping for a flash-player, I-Pod or car
> mp3/cd player) look at ogg-vorbis format which compresses better for
> equivalent bitrate. Better compression means smaller filesizes. Or FLAC
> which is lossless compression at similar filesize as mp3.

I use FLAC for storing all my music, it's trivial to transcode to mp3 or 
whatever for a portable device. It's not exactly similar size to mp3 
though :)

hads

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