Publisher's Description
From Ogg Vorbis:
Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source. This encoder will create Ogg Vorbis files (.ogg) out of wave format audio (.wav) or MP3 (.mp3) audio files. The encoder is a command line tool and isn't yet fully featured. (command = "oggenc input.wav -o output.ogg"). Visit Ogg Vorbis' site.
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All versions:
4.1 starsout of 81 votes
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Current version:
4.1 starsout of 81 votes
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"*** it just opens then closes"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Pros
None that I know of cant get it to do anything other then open then disappear
Cons
Doesn't do anything useful that I can tell
Summary
I don't like it because I have no clue how to use it
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"Preferable to MP3"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Pros
Used Lame for a while, but the MP3 player stopped recognising MP3 files. Whilst this was an annoyance at the time I discovered that it recognised Ogg files, thus the conversion began.
I use this in conjunction with Exact Audio Copy and the results are excellent. Much more versatile than MP3 and Open Source. If you want to know about bit rate etc see "Filter's" review above.
Cons
So far nothing and I doubt that I ever will find anything that bothers me. Anything less than five stars would be an injustice.
One possible gripe is that you have to know how to use this and research is required, but all that was worth it for the outstanding results.
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"not what you're looking for"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Pros
didn't freeze up my system and i didn't have to resotore the operating system
Cons
didn't do anything. something kind of command line flashed open and then closed. i couldn't find it to run it. not in the installed software list. want to convert audio cds to ogg, and don't think this program is what i'm looking for.
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"Awesome."
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
I laugh at hordes still using MP3.
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"CD Quality!!"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
This really does achive CD quality at 192Kbs andSound much better than MP3 and WMA, MP3 Needs to die now.
BTW don't bother converting your old MP3s to OGG, as your old MP3s will always sound better as any music can only sound as good or worse than its weakest link. -
"Ogg Vorbis rules .. get it"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
Most people will be happy with MP3 but now they want better quality, better bitrate, and thus bigger filesizes. There have been some alternatives introduced to offer the quality people desire at lower bitrates, i.e. decent bitrates around 128-160Kbps. Microsoft introduced their overhyped, inferior WMA, some might have been deceiving into thinking 64Kb/s is going to deliver quality sound. NO, of course it will not. Anyway, this extreme bitrate argument is something propogated by Microsoft. Never have I heard people complain of the size of MP3s in the Napster days, and the time it took to download them, where 128Kb/s was used mostly. And this was at a time when dial-up, 56k modems were most widely used. People, rightly, thought that better connections to the internet should be established rather than reduce the file size. Now broadband is widely available and people want to make use of the available bandwidth. Furthermore, the hard disks have no problems with capacity and storing files. Is there a need to go as low as 64Kb/s Microsoft Audio? No way. So, as your next generation audio codec, choose Ogg Vorbis, the sound is surpurb (I prefer quality 5, but some who don't notice things so well will find Q4.99 great too -- at around the same size MP3s at 128Kb/s!). Just try it out... http://www.vorbis.com
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"The best "lossy" codec"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
When I encoded to mp3, I said 192 kbps was a low bitrate, because I heard a very big difference beween that and the original audio CD. Now, when I encode to Ogg Vorbis, at the bitrate of 192 kbps I almost cannot hear the difference! Plus, the encoding speed is very good. Excellent!
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"The best "lossy" codec"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
When I encoded to mp3, I said 192 kbps was a low bitrate, because I heard a very big difference beween that and the original audio CD. Now, when I encode to Ogg Vorbis, at the bitrate of 192 kbps I almost cannot hear the difference! Plus, the encoding speed is very good. Excellent!
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"Leaving me breathless."
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
After converting 10 192 kbit MP3's of different genres to Vorbis 80 kbit VBR the conclussion is clear.
Vorbis is amazing. Convert your MP3's or your CD's to Vorbis right away using dbpoweramp w/ vorbis plug-in and the soundquality is one of a kind. -
"Use the dBpowerAMP codec"
Version: Ogg Vorbis encoder for Windows 1.0 RC2
Summary
Ogg Vorbis sounds closer to a wav file than an mp3. It seems to run more smoothly than an mp3. There's also the fact that its an open file type which is more politically correct and ogg will last longer than mp4 in the longrun. Definately the finest choice in lossy compression. WARNING: slow compression
