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

[Simon Hosie]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 02:12:09PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:11:00AM +1300, Simon Hosie wrote:
> > If passing the buck is necessary it would be best if it was done properly,
> > 'PRIOR-CODEC=lame 3.89', or whatever, would be more appropriate if that
> > information is available.  Perhaps default to 'unknown MP3'.
> 
> If I remember correctly ID3 tags don't have an option for storing which mp3
> encoder was used so just having it tagged as originating from MP3 would be
> as good as could be done.

I think that the Xing header carries it.  There's certainly an encoder
identifier in plain text in there, whether the Xing header owns it or not
I'm not sure.

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