Which is your Choice of Audio Codec in 2006?

[NeD tHe OnE]

As I always use and support Vorbis!

Because I dont find any other Audio Codec better!

So I Vote for Vorbis

[falcon2000eg]

I vote for vorbis also, but for low bitrate encodings it is aac

[Doom9]

I seem to recall a container, codec and encoding tool poll by the same person.. it's getting a little overboard here. This isn't your personal polling space after all.

[aiyunyi]

Without concerning the container, I firmly support musepack

but none of the containers can hold it...

[NeD tHe OnE]

@Doom9

About Encoding tool! I was personally sent a message (pm) by one of the encoding GUI creator to create a poll...

:(

[GodofaGap]

Despite Nero's latest efforts still Vorbis. :)

[buzzqw]

vorbis, vorbis and more vorbis !

BHH

[b9AcE]

I think the question is a bit vague.
Which format I encode into depends on the content (and sometimes even on usage environment).
I have different formats for...
* Playing music on my computer (Musepack)
* Playing music on portable devices (MP3)
* Lossless archiving of music (WavPack)
* Audio for a normal movie (HE-AAC)
* Audio for a movie where the audio is more important to the experience (original AC3/DTS)

Well, since the question didn't state for which purpose I would be encoding I assumed the most common one overall: music, and so I voted Musepack...

[buzzqw]

i could argue that is audio for MOVIE BACKUP (in mpeg4 formats) pourpose

BHH

[Chainmax]

Monkey's Audio for archiving, Ogg Vorbis aoTuVb4.51 @ q2 to q6 for backups.

[ron spencer]

mp3.....still way ahead in terms of playing anywhere....

[Rockaria]

Ogg Vorbis for 2ch/dpl II encoding, although I use AAC HE for 6ch light encoding.
Type 'oggenc2 -h' to know why.. It's crystal clear transparent of what it means to end-users.

[IgorC]

mp3 for player
aac for h.264 -> mp4 container. And I really don't care about new wma or vorbis. The competitors will be always tight.
Future mp4 compability is most important.

[Oline 61]

FLAC for music archiving and backups.
Ogg Vorbis for space-concious music backups.
AC3 for main movie tracks (5.1ch originals)
AAC for director's comment's and supplementary audio (or, if I can't meet my desired video bitrate, I may consider LC-AAC @ 320kbps 5.1ch for main audio).

[*.mp4 guy]

-Music Archival: FLAC
-Portable Music: LAME
-DVD Backup: Vorbis

My mp3 player is supposed to support Vorbis, but it refuses to play some Vorbis files (seemingly at randome) so I have to use mp3 :mad: . Thankfully LAME has made a lot of progress so It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be switching to mp3.

[imcold]

Vorbis for about 2 years. MP3 when I (or bro) want to play something on my mp3 player, though I will soon buy new one with vorbis support ;). Recently I'm experimenting with AAC too.

[NeD tHe OnE]

Vorbis for DVD Backup
Vorbis for director's comment's and supplementary audio
Vorbis for Music Backup
Vorbis for Portable
Vorbis for Mobile
;)

[olyteddy]

MP3 for its 'universality' (?) and because I'm too LAME to change...

[gameplaya15143]

oggenc2.83 aoTuV b4.51 lancer
-q 0 --advanced-encode-option lowpass_frequency=999
Been using that commanline for about 3 years now.. have never turned back :)
more bits saved on the audio = more bits available for the video

aac+sbr+ps if I need less than 48kbps though
mp3 for custom music in GTA-VC (lame 3.93.1 -V 9 -k --resample 44 --nspsytune)

[deets]

ogg for PC and izak unibrain play through the stereo.

aac for the PSP though :) which is where i play most of my music these days

[bond]

the choices should be changed:

1) wma and wma pro are totally different codecs and therefore should be tickable seperately

2) ac3 and atrac are totally different codecs and therefore should be tickable seperately

[imcold]

q0 is for not me - for movies maybe, but I encode regular music albums (not that I've been encoding much lately), and that's too low for my ears :) I use q4 most of the time, sometimes q3. :)

[xyloy]

Winamp v5.21 HE-AAC v2 (=SBR+PS) plugin from Coding Technologies, at 48 Kbps for movies.
And CT's LC-AAC(Stereo) at 224 kbps for audio CDs(I was used to Ogg Vorbis aoTuV b3 before).

;)

[unmei]

-vorbis (aotuv) for movies (~q3) and portable (~q0)
-musepack for music backups
-if i really want to keep surround for a movie soundtrack, or if i want to use really low bitrate then AAC (rearely the case)

[shon3i]

Movies:
- Stereo 48-128kbs HE and LC CT
- Stereo 96-128kbs LAME (before)
- 5.1 96-200kbs HE, 200-320kbs LC CT

Songs:
- 320 Independed Stereo CT
- 320 Independed Stereo LAME (before)

[DeathTheSheep]

The new WMAPro (2006) kicks butt, and so does Nero's new CLI AAC. Vorbis, MP3, etc haven't gone through significant, stable quality changes since 2005, so I wouldn't vote them in as a great "2006" codec if I were you. At least, not yet ;)

[denise]

HE AAC for all.
5.1 tape profile HE for movie.