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

[Olaf van der Spek]

Jack Moffitt wrote:
> 
> > The loss from the MP3->Ogg conversion was still very noticeable.
> >
> > Perhaps newer Vorbis encoders will do better, but I wouldn't
> > count on it.
> 
> There were bugs in the noise shaping I believe.  Even reencoding from
> high rate vorbis streams sounded really really bad.  From limited
> testing yesterday, this behaviour is much improved.  I'm sure we'd all
> appreciate a retest with CVS (which barring some bug fixes is going to
> ship as RC3 tonight (I hope!)).

Will that also include a new version of OggDrop (finally including the
patches)?

> 
> jack.
> 
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