According to this story, lots and lots of companies that license MP3 technology -- including Apple and Sony -- could end up having, shall we say, interesting times ahead
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Downloads from you?? Whatever format you prefer to use. :)
Personal usage/sharing out of print tapes - .mp3 since its cross platform between the PC and the Mac (iTunes unfortunately doesn't play .ogg, nor does Adobe Audition.). Otherwise I likely would make the .ogg jump.
Editing/recording - .wav ONLY. (Till I get told to use a better format by the experts (which do INCLUDE you.))
I'd probably use FLAC over .wav where available -- it's got all the advantages aside from ubuituity (losslessness), but is also decently compressed. (and since it's lossless, you can convert between it and uncompressed .wav without any corruption -- something not true about anything to/from .mp3 or to/from .ogg).
I'm not switching from .WAV for recording and editing anytime soon, and I don't think anyone else is either. It's uncompressed, and can handle pretty much any resolution you need; the limitation is the software reading it.
MP3 is the only more-or-less open standard that's universally supported. I can play an MP3 on any keychain MP3 player, on my dvd player, on any modern computer, etc.
Ogg Vorbis is an open standard with decent compression. It's not lossless (so I wouldn't use it for archives), but it has all the advantages of MP3 aside from ubuiquity. If it were easier to get portable devices with Ogg Vorbis support, I'd use it more.
FLAC is an open archival-quality standard. I wouldn't use it for travelling around music (way too large), but it's very good for archiving tapes and CDs to data-quality DVDs and CDs.
Format doesn't matter to me. I wants transparency. I want to be able to download or rip music with relative ease. I want to be able to move the file between players, from computer to portable player to dedicated player without restrictions.
I want reasonable sound quality, manageable file size and the ability to customize the header information as to title, artist, genre and such.
Right now, .MP3 gives me this, many of the others do not.
I'm wedded to the MP3 format because it's what my iPod uses, and frankly, having used some other players, I'm not liable to switch any time soon. (I admit that this may change, but as yet I don't see any reason to abandon my iPod, nor do I see an alternative that works anywhere near as well...which would be a reason, I suppose.) Also, MP3 is a least common denominator. I get music from a lot of different sources, especially online; the format they'll all share is guaranteed to be MP3.
I am an open source booster; if I had my druthers, I'd make Ogg Vorbis or FLAC (I leave the audiophiles to fight this one out, but as I understand it Ogg is leading, at least for the uses I'd be putting my music to) the standard, and be happier than happy.
It seems this is pretty much the standard response.
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Personal usage/sharing out of print tapes - .mp3 since its cross platform between the PC and the Mac (iTunes unfortunately doesn't play .ogg, nor does Adobe Audition.). Otherwise I likely would make the .ogg jump.
Editing/recording - .wav ONLY. (Till I get told to use a better format by the experts (which do INCLUDE you.))
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MP3 is the only more-or-less open standard that's universally supported. I can play an MP3 on any keychain MP3 player, on my dvd player, on any modern computer, etc.
Ogg Vorbis is an open standard with decent compression. It's not lossless (so I wouldn't use it for archives), but it has all the advantages of MP3 aside from ubuiquity. If it were easier to get portable devices with Ogg Vorbis support, I'd use it more.
FLAC is an open archival-quality standard. I wouldn't use it for travelling around music (way too large), but it's very good for archiving tapes and CDs to data-quality DVDs and CDs.
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I want reasonable sound quality, manageable file size and the ability to customize the header information as to title, artist, genre and such.
Right now, .MP3 gives me this, many of the others do not.
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I am an open source booster; if I had my druthers, I'd make Ogg Vorbis or FLAC (I leave the audiophiles to fight this one out, but as I understand it Ogg is leading, at least for the uses I'd be putting my music to) the standard, and be happier than happy.
It seems this is pretty much the standard response.
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