[vorbis-dev] thoughts about MP3 -> OGG convertor

[John Zitterkopf]

I plan on supporting this directly. CDMaster32 will provide
MP3 <-> OGG for those users.

Why is this a bad IDEA? I take it it's because of the "lossy" nature of
both types.

John
www.vorbisburner.com

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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Chris Cheney wrote:

> Everyone here already knows that convertings mp3s to oggs is a very bad
> idea.  However many users don't care and will find a way to convert anyway.
> I propose that there be a tool to automatically do it that comes with
> vorbis-tools, that way it can automatically tag it as SOURCE=MP3 (or
> whatever).  Of course we should have it emit a warning that it is bad to
> convert from mp3 to ogg but users will do it anyway, and we won't have to
> download their horrible oggs since they will be tagged as such.
> 
> Chris
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