On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 07:35 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Christopher Halse Rogers > <chalserogers gmail com> wrote: > I'd suggest encoding to Wavpack or FLAC if you want lossless, > ogg if > you want lossy and don't have a portable music player, or mp3 > if you > want lossless and have a portable music player that doesn't > play ogg. > I think that covers pretty much any use-case you would have. > > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:10 AM, darius.regnier > <darius regnier gmail com> wrote: > andrewski wrote: > > I'd still say to use Ogg over MP3 in that last case: doesn't > Banshee > > transcode to whatever codecs the player supports?> > > > Novell says it does, that's why I'm trying to figure out why > it doesn't. > I do use Ogg over MP3, but I still want to be able to encode > to the other > formats when I need to, which I do need to some times. > > I know. I was trying to respond to Christopher's suggestion (quoted > correctly above now). That's what I get for trying to bottom-post on > my PDA. ;) > It's my pseudo-audiophile side coming out :). The thinking: if you're going to have to encode to mp3 eventually anyway you might as well do it first - it's got comparable quality to ogg, and you don't have to spend the time doing another lossy re-encoding pass.
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