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Dec 6, 2009 2:33 PM
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Now that you’ve sorted out the clusterfrak that is the Linux audio API jungle, and got Linux to recognize your sound card, you’re ready to listen to some music. But wait! It looks like you’re using evil, proprietary audio standards like MP3 and AAC. How dare those bastards demand compensation for their development effort! Worse yet, evil M$ has seen fit to license those formats for their own OS!
But you’re in luck! Just get your favorite music in Ogg Vorbis format, and you’ll be free of corporate enslavement and lock-in! Of course, the files are only natively supported on Linux…
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o.O What? You can run ogg on Windows and it sounds wicked.
Windows and Mac OS don’t support ogg out of the box, which was the OP’s point.
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o.O What? You can run ogg on Windows and it sounds wicked.
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...but in listening tests is outperformed or matched by proprietary, useless, EVIL AAC (and even moreso now by HE-AAC).
Btw, how’s Theora doing compared to satanic & licensed H2.64? What’s that? Offers half the quality at twice the bitrate? Say it ain’t so!
I never claimed that all open source projects were superior to closed source, I’ve never tried Theora. What I said is that Ogg Vorbis is multi-platform, and to me is small size and sounds wicked :)
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I never claimed that all open source projects were superior to closed source, “
Right. Which is why we have so many thoughtful, unbiased reviews of closed software on UF.
Note: the only time I have seen HE-AAC beat Ogg is in stupidly low bitrates where neither really sound very good.
otherwise if you use a modern up-to-date encoder such as aoTuV 5.7 (only for windows) the quality is on par, but vorbis is easier to decode.
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=82125
just saying, and honestly I dont care if a format is natively supported, I install codec packs so I can use more modern formats such as MKV.
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