Vorbis - Mar 2001 - [Fwd: Re: File formats (RE: MP4 Player Available for Download)]

---- "Aleksandar Dovnikovic" <aldov@EUnet.yu> wrote:
> I think that AAC wasn't developed to be used as 'another'
> MP3, it's usage is focused towards companies that sell audio
> over the internet, for portable players, satellite communications...
A-ha!  That explains a lot.  There used to be a project called FAAC but
I presume it's gone.  After seeing this 'patent war', I even began
to
beleive that 80's and 90's commercialist junk music is more or less the
result of the marketing strategies of the record industry.  They even
choked out a talented artist like Prince (He wrote about MP3 the last
year, I think)!  Then, why should we bother with MP4 while Vorbis is
aiming to cover whole the MPEG standard?       

However, still I think:

Liquid Audio > LAME > Vorbis > WMA

in terms of quality.

Nevertheless, in only months, Vorbis showed remarkable improvement. 
It will become even better.  By the way, thank you for the quick explanation
on the next improvement, Segher.  It helps a code illiterate like me
to understand what's going on. ;-)

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"Bacchus 13" <bacchus13@zdnetonebox.com> wrote:
> However, still I think:
> 
> Liquid Audio > LAME > Vorbis > WMA
> 
> in terms of quality.
Liquid Audio (Fraunhofer MPEG-2 AAC Low Complexity) is
the best (in sound quality) at 128-160kbps bitrates (even at
lower bitrates), it really rocks. But the format is so ugly proprietary...

Greetings,
Aleksandar

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