Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Bright College Years

Bright College Years edit

A recording of the the 2006 Yale Whiffenpoofs singing Bright College Years, Yale's unofficial alma mater

This is a very high quality recording of the Yale Whiffenpoofs, a prominent collegiate a capella group. This is the first recording of the Whiffenpoofs featured on Wikipedia, and possibly one of the only recordings of the collegiate a capella style of singing. The recording was originally released on the group's 2006 album "Songs of Yale". This file is currently incorporated into the articles on the Whiffenpoofs and on the song, "Bright College Years".

The version here (Bright_College_Years.oga) is full fidelity, stored in Ogg FLAC. The version used in the articles is a friendlier Ogg Vorbis transcoding (Bright_College_Years.ogg). If it would be more appropriate to nominate that compressed version, please let me know.

Nominate and support. Oconnor663 (talk) 09:39, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment "..possibly one of the only..??" How can you be so confident? Edison (talk) 05:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Comment If this is indeed the better version of Bright College Years, then it should be used in place of File:Bright College Years.ogg. At the moment, this version, File:Bright College Years.oga is not used in articles. Also, at this moment, I am not able to get this file to play, however I am able to get other sound files from Wikipedia to play. Sven Manguard Wha? 21:45, 29 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- This version is encoded in FLAC which is lossless. Mediawiki is only capable of playing Vorbis encoded ogg audio. Vorbis is lossy and so in a perfect world all audio on Wikipedia would be in FLAC. You most likely need it download the file and play it in a player that has the FLAC codec. Zginder 2010-12-30T02:50Z (UTC)
  - ~~Oppose~~ superseded by Oppose .oga regretfully. I even tried the gadget that worked on other files, but I am unable to play this file at this time. As such, I must oppose it. If the average viewer cannot listen to a sound, that sound loses its value on the Wikipedia pages where it is hosted. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:19, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - Lossless is not always good. Sometimes, the space requirements are far more important than getting a small amount of higher quality. Bandwidth concerns for slow connections, compatibility, etc are some of said reasons. Additionally, over at FP, JPEGs are the most commonly promoted picture, a highly lossy format. Often times, the originals are in TIFF, a lossless format, and often uploaded separately. However, the JPEG is promoted for the same reasons I gave before. (X! · talk) · @917 · 21:00, 5 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - I have added an alternate version, which is regular OGG-encoded. (X! · talk) · @097 · 01:20, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- I had heard that one earlier and was debating doing the same thing. I'm no fan of this style of performance, but my preferences have no place here. The .ogg, which mind you is what's actually in the articles to begin with, meets all the FS requirements. Therefore, I suppose I must amend my votes accordingly as follows: I oppose the .oga file and Support the .ogg version only. Sven Manguard Wha? 01:48, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Comment—Can't access the first file, which is in ? what format? Good performance and recording, certainly; could be just a fraction faster. Who was the composer? Goodness me, don't they know that "poof" is an offensive term for a male homosexual in much of the anglosphere? Tony (talk) 12:34, 6 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- According to Zginder, this is FLAC, which I suppose the best comparison is that .oga (FLAC) is to .ogg as .tiff is to .jpg in images. It so happens that there is a prototype media player tool in the gadgets section, however that dosen't work for this file (but does work for other files that don't play with the default player, such as Japanese Emperor Hirohito's speech in 1945). Lossless is good, I suppose, and nothing will stop us from reexamining this when the default player can handle this file, but until then, I'd still rather promote the one that everyone can play easily and without fiddling with the settings. Accessibility is important. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:58, 8 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support This is the kind of recordings we need, high quality modern recordings. Z gin der 2011-01-08T16:31Z (UTC)

Promoted Bright_College_Years.ogg --(X! · talk) · @182 · 03:22, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]