Implementing sound - wav or mp3 ?

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Ogg is the best compromise.. They also allow for looping sounds, where mp3 tends to have gaps at the end of the track.

WAV is the best format of all, but because its uncompressed, 4 minutes of stereo, CD Quality audio would be about 40mb in size. (Thats how it always was before- Now you know why mp3 was such a breakthrough ;) )

One more thing that should probrably be mentioned for you:

If you ever think of converting your mp3s to OGG, don't. mp3 lowers the quality. re-encoding the mp3 to ogg will lose even more quality because of how ogg/mp3's work.

always convert from WAV to ogg, or WAV to whatever you need- Looks like from your first post, youre doing it right :)