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Hello all I have been encoding to OGG as a default for well over a year, but I recently thought I ought to test how it sounds compared to other codecs. I got the Windows Media 9 encoder and I was quite surprised at how bad a job OGG did at quality 0 with a simple piano clip, and how well WMA9 was - I've always considered WMA as being a bit naff, but WMA9 has forced me to re-access this view Drop by http://www.tompagenet.co.uk/vorbis/ to see if you agree or can offer any insight - shouldn't OGG beat WMA9 in sound quality? The original is from the Lost in Translation sound trac...

...hings easier. I see there is a Fedora Core RPM on the icecast page - does that indicate that Redhad would be a preferred distro to use? What are people's experience around here that run large (20k plus listener) icecast setups? What hardware / OSs do you use and why? Also, can icecast relay WMA9? We decided to go with the Spacial Audio SOS product to deal with AFTRA requirements, and it supports encoding to mp3, mp3pro, WMA9, and OGG - is it much of a headache to have an icecast server be able to relay mp3 and WMA9 streams at the same time? Thanks for your help -- Michael Hale <giftc...

...ad access to such large (real, rather than using synthetic clients) installations) scalability issues, but I could be wrong. I'd expect the windows version to have much more serious issues, other OSes such as linux, solaris, or *bsd should basically be fine,. > > Also, can icecast relay WMA9? We decided to go with the Spacial Audio > SOS product to deal with AFTRA requirements, and it supports encoding > to mp3, mp3pro, WMA9, and OGG - is it much of a headache to have an > icecast server be able to relay mp3 and WMA9 streams at the same time? Our primary aim is to have excel...

...> pass it through untouched), and this mechanism works for some other > codecs as well. However, we will not add explicit support for any > other formats, nor will we support usage of icecast with other formats > (i.e. if it breaks, you're entirely on your own). I don't know if WMA9 > requires explicit support or not. > > Mike > Frankly, the only reason that I'm even considering relaying WMA9 is because a large number of listeners to the streams may not be all that technically savvy and WMP comes with XP - I'd like to prevent having to ask the users...

...nce it works quite nice on WMA; and for now I'm encoding speech files with 48kbps (speech with background music) or 32kbps (speech as being preaching, bookreading or lectures). I wish to see that number going down though. If Speex performs better, has smaller files, and can compete with 32kbps WMA9 encoded files, I might become interested in testing out the product, and perhaps switching over! _________________________________________________________________ Reageer op foto?s van je vrienden en bekijk hun reacties op de jouwe. Gegarandeerd hilariteit! http://www.microsoft.com/belux/nl/windo...

> Mike > > Frankly, the only reason that I'm even considering relaying WMA9 is because > a large number of listeners to the streams may not be all that technically > savvy and WMP comes with XP - I'd like to prevent having to ask the users to > download another player if preferable. I don't have very much experience > with WMP 9 or WMP 10 etc. Forgive...

...Smith" <msmith@xiph.org> To: "Michael Hale" <giftculture@gmail.com> Cc: <icecast@xiph.org> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:03 AM Subject: Re: [Icecast] a few more questions... > Mike > > Frankly, the only reason that I'm even considering relaying WMA9 is > because > a large number of listeners to the streams may not be all that technically > savvy and WMP comes with XP - I'd like to prevent having to ask the users > to > download another player if preferable. I don't have very much experience > with WMP 9 or WMP 10 e...

Hi! The "Dare To Compare" page at http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/listen.html is pretty outdated. It is missing modern codecs like AAC+ and WMA9. It also features MP3Enc31, which not even google can identify any more ;-) The page also has "[an error occurred while processing this directive]" at the top and bottom. Regards, David PS: Maybe some links on the page to newer test would do, if there is no time rework it.