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200780 2004-01-27 13:37:00 Damn I can be thick at this time of night - Cdex does both Ogg Vorbis and Monkeys Greg S (201)
200781 2004-01-27 20:29:00 lol, yes I was going to say go with monkeys, but you figured that out for yaself ;) PoWa (203)
200782 2004-01-28 20:51:00 What sort of compatibility do these other formats have? For example, would an MP3 capable discman or car stereo be able to play the Monkeys or OGG Vorbis format?

Lizard
Lizard (2409)
200783 2004-01-28 21:15:00 Nope. bmason (508)
200784 2004-01-28 21:23:00 if i recall correctly monkey sucks becasue the file sizes are freaking huge.. jin kazama (5006)
200785 2004-01-28 22:32:00 Well yea if you rip a music track off the cd, it usually is about a 40mb wav file. Monkeys will make that about 20mb and thats lossless audio quality. So basically you have the exact same thing but half the size.

Now if you have mp3 you might get it down to 3-4mb but it might not sound as good as you've lost like half the quality.

Generally the mp3 player walkmans and iPods etc only allow you to play mp3 or the stupid DRM format. They haven't allowed for the better formats like ogg-vorbis or any lossless ones.
PoWa (203)
200786 2004-01-28 22:36:00 > if i recall correctly monkey sucks becasue the file
> sizes are freaking huge..

what about OGG Vorbis? How big are its files?
Lizard (2409)
200787 2004-01-28 23:19:00 > what about OGG Vorbis? How big are its files?

Just a little bit bigger than .mp3 files in my experience but that depends on what quality setting you rip the mp3s at. I no longer rip as oggs since I plan to get an mp3 portable CD player soon and don't want to risk it not being able to play them or being restricted to those brands that do. ;-)
Fire-and-Ice (3910)
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