[vorbis-dev] Building vorbis-tools without libao

[David Red]

 Why would want to change over to Vorbis when its not yet a total standard
in the multimedia PC industry as of yet. Seems like a big waste of time .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Stewart" <reaper at fogtree.org>
To: <vorbis-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Building vorbis-tools without libao

> >
> >
> >For my new file (and thus mp3) server I've decided to switch
> >completely to Ogg Vorbis. This means having to reencode
> >~30GB worth of 128Kb MP3's, but i figured that it would all
> >be worth the effort.
> >
> Sorry, but it won't be worth the effort.  For a number of reasons,
> transcoding from MP3 to Ogg Vorbis is NOT a good thing.  The main reason
> being that your audio will end up sounding _worse_.  See other messages
> on this list for more info.
>
> ** To the vorbis.com site admins:  Perhaps someone should post a short
> article saying that this is bad, and all the reasons why it's bad.
>  Seems the average user doesn't get it, and therefore, to save ourselves
> some breath, we could just reference to the website.
>
> As for you compiling questions, i'm sorry, i can't help you with that.
>  Though your motives are scewed, i think this is a valid question, and
> actually something i wondered when having fun compiling vorbis-tools for
> myself.  Some wise coder please tell us.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
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