Monty 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 would let me decode more than half the damn file, without paying $30. I can't believe people charge money for these trivial wrapper around Microsoft's filters. The resulting wavs and the original wavs (each 5.2MB) are available here: http://www.vorbis.com/~jack/wma8/ Let the fun begin :) jack. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
For those who want to encode and decode from and to different codecs (WMA, MP3, OGG :)...), there's a pretty good tool, a freeware for windows users at http://www.dbpoweramp.com. Simple and efficient. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Moffitt <jack@xiph.org> To: <vorbis@xiph.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 9:16 PM Subject: [vorbis] wma8 decodings> Monty 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 would let me decode more than > half the damn file, without paying $30. I can't believe people charge > money for these trivial wrapper around Microsoft's filters. > > The resulting wavs and the original wavs (each 5.2MB) are available > here: > > http://www.vorbis.com/~jack/wma8/ > > Let the fun begin :) > > jack. > > --- >8 ---- > List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ > Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ > To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' > containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. > Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
----------> Van: Jack Moffitt <jack@xiph.org> > Aan: vorbis@xiph.org > Onderwerp: [vorbis] wma8 decodings > Datum: dinsdag 3 juli 2001 21:16 > > Monty 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 would let me decode more than > half the damn file, without paying $30. I can't believe people charge > money for these trivial wrapper around Microsoft's filters.Yes, rediculous. But try this: http://www.dbpoweramp.com/ Their converter is free and supports WMA, MP3, WAV and OggVorbis. --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
Jack Moffitt a écrit: 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 would let me decode more than > half the damn file, without paying $30.There's another one, called "Cool Decode". I do not remember the URL, butI can send you a copy, if you want.> The resulting wavs and the original wavs (each 5.2MB) are available > here: > > http://www.vorbis.com/~jack/wma8/ > > Let the fun begin :) > > jack.Sorry, I have neither good soundgear nor properly-configured kernel, then Icannot hear sound. Can you tell us the results? --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.