[Gllug] OT: Finding files in directories recursively

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sat Jun 28 17:18:37 UTC 2008


On 25 Jun 2008, tethys at gmail.com stated:
> No. On the other hand, I used to be convinced that the hype around the
> sound quality of Ogg Vorbis was larely just that -- hype. I used it
> anyway for idealogical reasons, but I assumed it was on a par with
> MP3, or perhaps a bit better in theory, but nothing you'd notice in
> the real world. Then my girlfriend got a phone that doesn't play Ogg
> Vorbis files[1], so I encoded some stuff up as MP3 for her (from the
> original lossless sources). It sounded *terrible*, to the point where
> I deemed it unusable. In order to make it vaguely bearable, I needed

Part of this might be because it was on a phone. They often have
truly *awful* speakers and DACs.

MP3 is definitely worse than Ogg, especially above 15kHz, but not *that*
much worse.

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 assume that you are doing no work due [to] incapacitating nausea caused 
 by numerous lazy demons.' --- Frossie
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