[Gllug] OT: Finding files in directories recursively

[- Tethys]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Andy Smith <andy at lug.org.uk> wrote:

>> It is not suitable IMNSHO for any 'musical' purposes. I hear a great big
>> hole in the sound - as if the backdrop has gone.
>
> Not that I disbelieve you, but, have you ever verified this with a
> double blind test?

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
to have file sizes that were at least 50% larger than the equivalent
Ogg Vorbis file of the same song, and sometimes more than that. It's
not just that Ogg Vorbis is a little bit better than MP3. It's
massively better, and the difference is easily detectable to the
untrained ear, even through cheap headphones. That came as something
of a shock to me.

Tet

[1] Nokia E90. Yes, it plays Ogg Vorbis with the addition of OggPlay,
but I haven't yet managed to get it to do so via the native player
(OggPlay doesn't do handy things like pause the music on an incoming
call).

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