On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:08, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Check out ogginfo(1) - it should've come with vorbis-tools and tells you > all that good stuff: Thanks. That's definitely more interesting. I still don't see what should cause one to create a huge popping noise when it starts and the other doesn't. My suspicion is that the first one, which pops, is generated from 240bit audio, whereas I'm thinking that the second is generated from 16-bit audio, but I don't know that for sure, and ogginfo doesn't seem to tell me. bash-2.05b$ ogginfo gmc2.ogg Processing file "gmc2.ogg"... New logical stream (#1, serial: 3691a8a7): type vorbis Vorbis headers parsed for stream 1, information follows... Version: 0 Vendor: Xiphophorus libVorbis I 20011231 (1.0 rc3) Channels: 2 Rate: 44100 Nominal bitrate: 128.031000 kb/s Upper bitrate not set Lower bitrate not set Vorbis stream 1: Total data length: 4372644 bytes Playback length: 5m:05s Average bitrate: 114.389712 kbps Logical stream 1 ended bash-2.05b$ bash-2.05b$ bash-2.05b$ ogginfo examplesustain.ogg Processing file "examplesustain.ogg"... New logical stream (#1, serial: 6378c0ce): type vorbis Vorbis headers parsed for stream 1, information follows... Version: 0 Vendor: Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20020717 (1.0) Channels: 2 Rate: 44100 Nominal bitrate: 224.000000 kb/s Upper bitrate: 256.000000 kb/s Lower bitrate not set Vorbis stream 1: Total data length: 3122631 bytes Playback length: 2m:08s Average bitrate: 193.935677 kbps Logical stream 1 ended bash-2.05b$