Opinion poll: your favorite audio codec

[guada]

You can choose one of them and tell me why:
MPC brainded, AAC Transcoding Ultra, LAME 3.98 or APE Insane

See you soon! ;)

[Manao]

Erm... you forgot vorbis :scared:

It's the only one I have been using, for two years now, so I can't really say it's my favorite, because I didn't even try the others.

[Sycho]

i think you need more options

MP2
MP3
MPA (audio 2 layer 1)
OGG Vorbis
WMA7
WMA8
WMA9
WMA9Pro
Real
AC3

[twist3d]

3.90.3 is the latest recommended lame version producing quality audio, see
recommended lame versions (http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=4763&). if you mean lame 3.96 with that "3.98" then it's under testing to become new recommended version.
but actually getting into your poll (which could've been started as poll, ahem): for audio encoding i use nero's aac encoder at extreme/audiophile settings, for movies it's either original ac3 or ~100kbps vbr mp3.

[guada]

Hello, :)

it's early it's true but...

First Manao, i' am sorry i forgottent it.
Secondly, Sycho thanks for the others, i think a good thinq for all opinions.
Twist3d, i approved of your argument about version Lame.

Nevertheless, i am very interesting to know your opinions about pure audio, not for audio movie.

Bye, i'm going to work ..
See you soon ;) ;)

[smok3]

music: flac and|or nero aac normal (mpc before that)
for movies it was: he aac + xvid (matroska) - not so interesting now, since i got that dvd burninator.

[Slogra]

I use Musepack and Flac for CD audio. And i use Ogg vorbis or orginal AC3 for video.

[Soulhunter]

Music:

- Lame mp3 @ 256 kbps | Used it all the time before

- Nero he-aac @ 192 kbps | For all the new stuff

- MPC @ braindead | Only for my real favorite stuff


Movie:

- AC3 | The original stream

- Lame mp3 @ 192 kbps | For captured stuff


Bye

[Brother John]

- Lame 3.96 preset standard for music
- Nero HE-AAC internet or streaming profile for 6 ch movie sound tracks
- Vorbis q2 to q4 for 2 ch tracks
- And sometimes when I really don’t have any other idea for wasting more space, I keep the AC3 track.

[neo75903]

My goal is to get things work on a Darwin Straeming server.
-Music: 160 kbps, Stereo Lame, http.
-Movie: 320kbps, 6 ch Nero HE-AAC, RTPS.
or
-Movie: 96kbps, 2 ch Nero HE-AAC, RTPS.

Also keep the AC3 track as a backup and in case i messed up my mp4 encoding :)