[ale] like the tuxradar podcast

[ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org (Don Lachlan)]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com> wrote:
> Aaron referred me to the TuxRadar podcast ( http://www.tuxradar.com/ )
> in a prior post. ?I've listened to a few, and like it, so thanks. ?They
> provide OGG and MP3 files. ?The download links say that OGG is high
> quality and MP3 is low quality (even though the bit rate is higher for
> MP3). ?I can't really speak to the quality, but the OGG file is smaller,
> and my Sansa Fuze audio player supports it, so I downloaded that.

OGG Vorbis should produce higher quality at lower bitrates than MP3;
it's the lower bitrate that's keeping the file smaller. OGG's
disadvantage is that it isn't natively supported by media devices like
the iP([ao]d|hone).

-Don