Hi, Guest
died? hah!
I'm using it right now (seriously, listening to Elgar - Enigma Variations 08 Theme - Andante.ogg). iRiver players support it, the Cowon iAudio M5 I want plays it (along with FLAC)... OGG is far from dead.
I know of a few games that use ogg aswell, for the ingame music.
MP3 is old old technology, it's only popular because it was there at the right time (Napster?)
128 MP3 to 128 M4A was just an example. But again 128 MP3 to 96 M4A degrades quality one step further. The file doesn't get smaller for no reason, they ARE removing more information/sound. An M4A file may sound higher quality at 96 if, and only IF encoded from the original source (say the CD), if you convert 128 MP3 to 96 M4A it's going to lose quality no matter how you look at it and wont sound as good as a direct rip to that bitrate and codec.
I personally still use MP3 on my iRiver SlimX-350 (3 years old? 4? fairly old MP3 player now), but only because I have to, as they never released the OGG codec for it like they claimed they were going to. They do however support OGG on all their new players.
I'm using it right now (seriously, listening to Elgar - Enigma Variations 08 Theme - Andante.ogg). iRiver players support it, the Cowon iAudio M5 I want plays it (along with FLAC)... OGG is far from dead.
I know of a few games that use ogg aswell, for the ingame music.
MP3 is old old technology, it's only popular because it was there at the right time (Napster?)
128 MP3 to 128 M4A was just an example. But again 128 MP3 to 96 M4A degrades quality one step further. The file doesn't get smaller for no reason, they ARE removing more information/sound. An M4A file may sound higher quality at 96 if, and only IF encoded from the original source (say the CD), if you convert 128 MP3 to 96 M4A it's going to lose quality no matter how you look at it and wont sound as good as a direct rip to that bitrate and codec.
I personally still use MP3 on my iRiver SlimX-350 (3 years old? 4? fairly old MP3 player now), but only because I have to, as they never released the OGG codec for it like they claimed they were going to. They do however support OGG on all their new players.
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