Re: [tlug] Sony: Proprietary Junk

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Godwin Stewart wrote:

> On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:48:25 +0900, "Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon"
> <ronfaxon@example.com> wrote:

> > Do the "Creative" ones sound okay?  I've got a couple of friends who
> > swear by them, but they were only talking about cost and reliability
> > - no mention of the sound quality was made....

> My next one will be a Samsung, merely because they're almost all
> compatible with OGG-Vorbis files. I have over 4 gigs of .ogg files here
> (all ripped from CDs I bought, don't worry :o) and I'd be really
> disappointed if I had to convert them to MP3 format. At equivalent
> bitrates, MP3 sounds like crap next to OGG so I'd need to convert the
> OGG files back to WAV and from there to MP3 at a much higher bit rate,
> therefore using much more disk space (and with extra loss).

Right.  Actually, I should have said something like "any standard audio
format" instead of "MP3" - I used it in a generic sense.  My Cowon
player used to play .wav, mp3, .ogg, etc. (it doesn't play anything now,
it's broken).  I'm still using MP3 because I haven't had time to
experiment with command-line file creation going from my CD's to
.ogg.....  But even MP3 sounds far better than the bloody native format
Sony uses.  (Again - TLUGers, avoid SONY!)

Samsung huh?  Are they actually sold under the "Samsung" name, or
something else?  The Cowon ("iAudio" - creative name hey?) is Korean....

Lyle