# How to change default Bank .ogg compression quality?

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328 "2016-02-23T22:35:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Arcus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@Arcus](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Arcus)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/1 "2016-02-23T22:35:05Z")

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Hi, when I make new banks it defaults them to .ogg (which is fine) and 37% Quality — which seems oddly low.

Any way to change that default? And is there a reason why 37% is the default? My understanding is the % roughly maps to .ogg’s own 1-10 quality.

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**Author:** ![nick1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@nick1](https://qa.fmod.com/u/nick1)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/2 "2016-02-23T22:54:04Z")

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The creators of the vorbis codec consider quality 5 to be undetectable, and recommend quality 3 as the best balance between fidelity and size.

There’s no way to change the default in 1.7. However 1.8 has a newer workflow which includes setting defaults.

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**Author:** ![Arcus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/edb3f5/32.png) [@Arcus](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Arcus)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/3 "2016-02-23T23:05:57Z")

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> [@](#):
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> The creators of the vorbis codec consider quality 5 to be undetectable, and recommend quality 3 as the best balance between fidelity and size.
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> There’s no way to change the default in 1.7. However 1.8 has a newer workflow which includes setting defaults.

Ah, thank you Nicholas! Will test. I wasn’t aware of that.

Which 1.8 are you referring to? I’m on FMOD Studio 1.07.06.

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**Author:** ![nick1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@nick1](https://qa.fmod.com/u/nick1)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/4 "2016-02-23T23:06:46Z")

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1.08.00 which will be released in a month or so.

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**Author:** ![loki3323](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@loki3323](https://qa.fmod.com/u/loki3323)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 9:12am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/5 "2020-07-06T09:12:10Z")

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> [@Solved by nick1 in post #2](#):
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> quality 5

Hi,

Now we could adjust the quality, how much % is equivalent to quality 5?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![mathew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/mathew/32/431_2.png) [@mathew](https://qa.fmod.com/u/mathew)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/6 "2020-07-06T23:51:41Z")

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The FMOD range is from 0 to 100, the Vorbis range is from -0.1 to 1.0.

The formula we use to convert between them is:  
`Vorbis_Quality = ((FMOD_Quality - 1) / 90.0f) - 0.1f;`

So for quality 5 (or 0.5 as it is used in the Vorbis API) you need FMOD quality 55.

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**Author:** ![loki3323](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@loki3323](https://qa.fmod.com/u/loki3323)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 10:08am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/how-to-change-default-bank-ogg-compression-quality/12328/7 "2020-07-08T10:08:31Z")

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Thank you!  
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