On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 19:35, Syd Hancock wrote:
What do people use for ripping/encoding and what bit rates? Do you use different bit rates for playing through the household stereo rather than a small portable player?
I use Grip, set to a nominal bitrate of 192kbps. But because Ogg Vorbis is a VBR encoder, it rarely makes correct decisions on what needs more bits spent on it anyway. :-/ (My experiments seem to show that it needs to spend more bits on louder, busier parts, and tends to use less bits for quieter, but equally as details parts.)
As for if I'd use different bitrates for different things: if I were playing the Ogg Vorbises through my Hi Fi, I wouldn't use Ogg Vorbis at all - I'd use Ogg FLAC. :)
Our 192kbps ones are simply for listening to on headphones or using the 50 quid mini system in the study.
B.