Re: Poor programming support

levein wrote:
> Thanks for all your replies! I've been trying to shrink some audio files for
> a language learning software. Tried wave format first, but I can only reduce
> the original 690MB to 80MB despite of a noticeable quality loss. Ogg reduced
> to 60MB without quality loss...at least I can't tell, it's good enough for
> online distribution. Final installation file is 31MB, it seems that ogg
> leaves lots of room for compression program. Anyway, I decided to use ogg,
> but I didn't expect the programming hurdle.

Sigh.

If your problem is voice compression, you should be using a speech 
codec.  Not a general purpose codec like MP3 or Vorbis which is targeted 
more at music.

It's kinda hard to take your opinions seriously when you make such an 
egregious mistake in researching your own problem.

-a