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Old 03-28-2008, 07:37 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What audio codec should I use for a site?

Hello everyone,
in this case the site will be a section on one of my sites that will showcase commercials from the golden age of radio. I have plenty of resources to use from my OTR collection for the source audio, just looking for input as to what codec may go over best.
Any decent media player should be able to handle any of the codecs listed below.
My personal top choices are:
hybrid wavpack - just posting the lossy file obviously (likely setting the bitrate in the 128 kb/s range in wavpack frontend) as the correction file puts the size up there with FLAC and APE
MP4 - very fond of AAC, and Compaact! works wonderfully
Ogg-Vorbis - probably using a low but decent VBR setting in foobar2k

MP3 in nowhere near that list as there are far better choices out there now in my opinion.

the file size should not be too bad as most of these commercials are 30-60 seconds at most.

any input is appreciated. Now to figure out how to achieve the look in my head ,my experience is much more on the audio side than visual. ....wanders off to look at some of those bookmarked GIMP tutorials again
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Old 03-28-2008, 09:08 AM   #2 (permalink)
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My favorite would have to be the WavPack hybrid lossless. That said, I know that FLAC will probably be the most popular lossless codec for a long time.

I performed tests and found that WavPack, even when in hybrid mode (-b2.0 -c -cc -hh), created a smaller set of lossless files than FLAC (1.2.1 @ 8). APE is still the supreme champ at creating small lossless files, but I foresee fading away as development seems to have stopped. WavPack and FLAC will catch up with it, and will one day surpass it.


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