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  • neilthecellist
    dBpoweramp Guru

    • Dec 2004
    • 1288

    Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

    Ok, so a year ago I got Unreal Tournament 2004. Great game, and I was 14 at the time I played it. (Oooooo, bad Neil...underage :lol.....I noticed for the music files it had Ogg Vorbis, using older libraries for the encoding. (somewhere around the year 2000 codec for Ogg Vorbis)

    Then I got an age - appropriate game. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Other than the fact that the game sucks, the music was pretty good. I looked @ the directory, WOW! It's in ogg vorbis too!

    It used the same libraries. (around year 2000)

    Why is that? If I used dMC to rip something to Ogg Vorbis using a more recent library, does it necessarily sound better?

    And - when I rip a track from a CD to ogg vorbis at a low bitrate (around 48 ~ 64 kbps) it sounds bad. It's like the sound is all in the center of my speakers.... but if I rip to wma at the same bitrate.......it sounds like AM radio, but all the sound seems to be on the EDGE of my speakers...WHY is that? Is it because WMA is better than OGG?
  • drspy00
    dBpoweramp Enthusiast

    • Apr 2004
    • 104

    #2
    Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

    Well they are totally different codecs and cant really be compared. WMA sounds better at a lower bitrate. I prefer ogg as I think it sounds better personally.

    I don't think a newer released codec of ogg would make something sound better, im not sure but I think its mainly compression and tags that are updated. I could be wrong so if anyone knows the answer post here too.

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    • neilthecellist
      dBpoweramp Guru

      • Dec 2004
      • 1288

      #3
      Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

      yes someone please. I would like to learn.

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      • adaywayne
        dBpoweramp Guru

        • Nov 2004
        • 383

        #4
        Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

        Originally posted by neilthecellist
        yes someone please. I would like to learn.
        Go to

        and read all the histiry of improvements from the beginning.
        Arnie

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        • neilthecellist
          dBpoweramp Guru

          • Dec 2004
          • 1288

          #5
          Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

          i did. i dont get it.

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          • adaywayne
            dBpoweramp Guru

            • Nov 2004
            • 383

            #6
            Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

            Originally posted by neilthecellist
            i did. i dont get it.
            What don't you get?

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            • ChristinaS
              dBpoweramp Guru

              • Apr 2004
              • 4097

              #7
              Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

              Neil, shouldn't you be at school now? I'm sure there are a bunch of school subjects that should require more of your attention than the ogg codec's whys and why-nots.

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              • adaywayne
                dBpoweramp Guru

                • Nov 2004
                • 383

                #8
                Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

                Originally posted by ChristinaS
                Neil, shouldn't you be at school now? I'm sure there are a bunch of school subjects that should require more of your attention than the ogg codec's whys and why-nots.
                And I should be in school too, to learn how to spell "history". LOL.
                Arnie

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                • neilthecellist
                  dBpoweramp Guru

                  • Dec 2004
                  • 1288

                  #9
                  Re: Games, Ogg Vorbis, and dMC

                  LOL! I'm was at school at the time when i posted the last post. I was working on computer programming (Visual Basic) classwork but i decided to take a break. nothin much. don't worry about me! LOL! Thanks for asking tho. ^_^

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