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...wanted some samples with which to compare Vorbis and WMA, and he doesn't have a Win32 machine, so I made some. Microsoft has made their own demo samples available at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/WM8/audio.asp I took their original .wav's, and encoded them with their wma8 encoder utility (WM8EUTIL.EXE), using all of the available stereo modes at 44.1kHz. This includes, 192, 160, 128, 96, 80, 64, 48, 32 kbps. I then used the Advanced WMA Workshop (http://www.litexmedia.com/?from_WMAWorkshop) to decode the .wma's back into WAV. This is the only program that wou...

...now it's good. I'm talking about Vorbis at 128 as it currently is in CVS. Please participate in a group listening test of various formats to show how Vorbis 128 has improved since RC2. I have prepared three sample music clips comparing Liquid AAC, MPC, pre-RC3 Vorbis, Lame, Xing, and WMA8, similar to the first test. Except I believe that this time Vorbis will rank up near the top. http://ff123.net/128test/instruct.html ff123 --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message t...

...as well as to the team's personal mailboxes. The following is a highlight of the interesting things that have been mentioned or announced. 4.1. New Listening Tests ff123 [19]invited all to participate in a new listening test comparing Vorbis at 128kbps from CVS against RC2 Vorbis, WMA8, and other codecs. He expects Vorbis to be much improved from it's earlier scores (which were already very good). 4.2. Another Proposed Hardware Project Pulkit Khandelwal [20]wrote that he is thinking about a hardware decoding project as his final year project at Cardiff Universit...