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what audio format do you use?

Lucuias

MP3 the most,easier to download.

xLucia

MP3

Da_Tinker

MP3.....easiest with the drag and drop feature.

BladeDreams

MP3, WMA.
Prefer the MP3 file though as it is same / better sound quality...But much smaller file size then WMA. Almost less then half the size.

RaptorZX3

MP3 most of the time, but i wouldn't mind WMA or FLAC.

it's a shame so few PMPs doesn't support OGG audio files

r58

FLAC sound the best.

[ Last edited by Lucuias at 2008-5-28 06:52 ]

Lucuias

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Original posted by r58 at 2008-5-28 02:20
FLAC sound the best.

but not common,it is hardly down load FLAC from internet.

WhiteLeopard

MP3 (downloaded music) and FLAC (my ripped CDs).
Sure i prefer FLAC quality.

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i think you mean just the opposite , considering that only Meizu and Oppo support OGG audio files.
i wonder why most manufacturers still don't implement this open format.

robertaa

I mostly listen to Mp3 files on handheld players and Flac or Ape files on my computer.  Choosing Mp3 files allows the player to be stocked with more music, and it seems like listening to Flac files depletes the battery faster than playing only Mp3's.  On the Ogg files, my old Cowon iAudio 5 supports them so unless Cowon dropped it all their current players should still support this.

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Flac files depletes the battery faster

Interesting opinion ;)
Meanwhile many player support flac, fortunately, but no one really supports the tags propper,
(especially cover art.)
That´s the main negative issue in my mind

zombieJC

ogg vorbis (aotuv 3 encoded) because it's better quality/lower size than mp3. I tend to use higher size but even at high compression it has nicer sounding artifacts where as mp3 artifacts (like warble) make things unlistenable IMO. For stuff that lossy formats show quality loss against I use flac. Even on decent headphones most pmp's won't show a difference between high bitrate lossy formats and lossless unless it's something like classical so for most people a sufficiently high quality lossy format is transparent compared to source quality. Also the range a player outputs is often limiting too but most do the standard 20Hz>20KHz. I never download music and only encode myself because most people don't record it properly (ie. from good hardware and or with right settings) and it shows on my headphones.

I hate mp3 and aac isn't much better, granted mp3pro makes some much needed improvements when it comes to higher ranges but even that falls short of ogg vorbis. Why use anything else when ogg vorbis is better quality and better compression and it's open source so there is no real downside other than player support and nearly all the pmp's discussed on here touch it no problem. Mp3 is out dated and it's time it died. Obviously there are a few reasons someone may still use it such a need to be legacy device friendly because you share or sync them with older hardware. If you aquire them from net sources in mp3 you can always re-encode yourself though, but bear in mind you will be limited by source concerning quality and bitrates (hence artifacting can't be removed that way) and it's always better to encode fresh from original.

gsprings

yeah i was wondering if converting mp3 to ogg would improve quality

Kalimerou

the mp3 is a destructive compression : you can't actually get back the data you losed when encoding to mp3
but if you encode an audio cd to ogg instead of mp3, then you may have some little improvements (depending on how you configured your encoder).

the mp3 format is way easier to use (it can be played everywhere) and to find.
And flac is slowly becoming a new standard for top-quality rips

Renee

mp3..............

hwmook

MP3 because all downloaded.......

Renee

And rip from CD.