[Flac-dev] FlacPak

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:41:56AM -0700, tech at bishop.dhs.org wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Josh Green wrote:
> > > Steve Lhomme wrote:
> > > 
> > > You might try to contact the makers of FruityLoops. Right now their 
> > > samples packs are in Ogg format (stored in a WAV IIRC). They like open
> > > and free formats (they also use the LAME encoder).
> > 
> > I've thought of doing lossy compression before on instruments, but I'd
> > much rather stick to lossless, at least for now. There are issues to be
> > sorted out when doing lossy compression, specifically in regards to loop
> > points. It would be nice to get the nice compression ratios that Ogg has
> > to offer, but in the world of high quality instruments, I don't think it
> > makes as much sense. I'll leave some expansion to allow for something
> > like this to be implemented in the future, though. Cheers.
> 
> Actually, if you look closer, he said that the audio format was WAV (not
> vorbis), but the container was ogg.  And, as you probably know, there is
> support to have FLAC in an ogg container.  So it would definetly make
> sense to talk to them about your project.
> 
> Just to clarify :-)

Actually, I believe FruityLoops uses Vorbis streams stored in a WAV
"container".  Saying "Ogg" where one means "Vorbis" is a common error.

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 - mdz