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Is Vorbis Ogg as good as Lame MP3?

April 26, 2017good lame mp3 Ogg Vorbis

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Is Vorbis Ogg as good as Lame MP3?

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Well, someone from Vorbis called me a 7AM California time and insisted that OGG quality kicked ass over MP3. I haven’t done any serious testing myself, nor have I seen any results from double-blind listening tests. My thoughts are that MP3 and the lame encoder have had a few more years to nail down the hairy issues. There are a bunch of poor quality MP3 encoders out there, and a bunch of good ones. There’s only one OGG encoder I know of. On the otherhand, the OGG folks were able to learn from all the MP3 encoder mistakes. In short, you make the call. There’s some more OGG info at http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp.