linzq Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Hello All, My apologies if this has already been discussed, or if I'm posting in the wrong forum. Now that we have HiMDRenderer 3.0 (which looks great, thanks Marcnet!), and all of these output options to choose from, I don't know which one to use!! I'd like to burn the resulting files to CD, but mainly I'd like to use the best quality possible. Could anyone please suggest which output format has the highest quality? Thanks, Lindsay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dex Otaku Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 FLAC - lossless compression. No quality is lost. There is a plugin for Nero that lets you burn FLAC files directly. OGG - while this might promote argument .. ogg itself is a container format. In this context however, we're talking about OGG Vorbis - another lossy compression method that is known to work better than mp3. lame mp3 - as mp3 using the lame codec. Lossy. WAV - lossless PCM, same as CD. If you want to burn CDs of your recordings, and want the best quality, use either WAV or FLAC. If you're only going to keep the files around long enough to do your burning, WAV is the simplest way to go. Remember also that if your original recording is in HiSP or HiLP, what you will be getting as output is decoded [to PCM and then to whichever format you chose to write to] and has already gone through one pass of lossy compression. Unless you have a real reason to convert to OGG or mp3, -don't-. All you will be doing is adding more compression artifacts, basically the 'modern' equivalent of generation loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linzq Posted November 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 So, just to clarify - is the quality of FLAC and WAV the same, it's just the compression that's different? I'm recording in PCM already, so I think that helps a bit. Thanks for your help, dex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
?eter_ Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 That's right, FLAC and WAV are same sound quality, FLAC is useful for archiving because it tales up about 1/2 the space-handy if you aredoing a lot of recording. ?eter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozpeter Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 If you want to play the resulting CD in a normal CD player, wave format (44.1kHz, 16 bit, stereo) is the required ("Red book") format. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linzq Posted November 9, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Ah, great - thanks so much for all of your help - that's just the info I was looking for! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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