Audio Quality and Formats

by DADSGETNDOWN Mar 20, 2010 11:51AM PDT

Hello there, I forget "exactly" where I just read this, but some where here on cnet in a newsletter, either reviews of mp3 players, or software or something like that, i can't find it now.
Anyway, It said that a couple formats compared to mp3 are much better (of course), but it said that a aac and or aiff (a couple different ones) I can't remember exactly, but they at 160 are as good as a .mp3 at 320, is that true ?.
So basically saying that those formats it mentioned were as good encoded at half the rate, or whatever.
I thought a mp3 at 320 was cd quality ?.
So .wav is the best right ?.
I wish I could find that darn article, dang it, might have had to do with Itunes, geez it was only about a month ago too.

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Yes I believe everything you said are correct, but...

by ahtoi Mar 20, 2010 12:40PM PDT

it's the situation that determine what you use. For example; I can't use aac because mp3 is all it support.

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Well Yeah

by DADSGETNDOWN Mar 20, 2010 2:06PM PDT

That goes with out saying...Heh..

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Then your point is...

by ahtoi Mar 21, 2010 2:50AM PDT

one format is better than another? I would say no, it depends on usages. I remember in the old day of mp3 on cd but now most dvd player can play mp3; and dvd discs are so inexpensive, encoding mp3 at high bitrate is no problem.

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If we're talking just quality

by DADSGETNDOWN Mar 21, 2010 1:27PM PDT

There are definitely some better than others, especially since we know mp3's cut out a lot of stuff and then we have those formats that at half the bitrate are as good or better, so then we have a mp3@320 and aac or aiff @320 then ofcourse a .wav.. that then makes the mp3 poorer quality by far.

But there are a few questions and points in my original post, I just can't find that article ):

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Ok, let's take .wav;

by ahtoi Mar 21, 2010 3:40PM PDT

How many players supports the .wav format (not many). and the file size is large compares to mp3. There are 1 or 2 none-lousy format (I don't remember the name) and I have seen some player that support those format (but again..not many). So what's important; quality of sound or storage space (file size). Know what you want before going shopping for that player.

Like I said, you are correct in what you said. We don't need the article.

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Couple lossless audio compression codec;

by ahtoi Mar 21, 2010 4:35PM PDT

FLAC and OggPCM

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