[vorbis] Well done!

[Monty]

> On 12 Apr 2000, lars brinkhoff wrote:
> 
> > I'm considering converting all my mp3 files to Vorbis format.  Only
> > examples/encoder_example is a bit too simplistic (of course, being an
> > example), and the cmdline tools aren't ready.
> 
> Both mp3 & ogg are lossy compression formats.  Especially if you're doing
> low bitrates.  Taking a song that has already been somewhat mangled by mp3
> and remangling it w/ ogg would be.. bad.  
> 
> I really think there aught to be a standard header flag in all of these
> formats stating wheither the file was encoded from original, clean,
> uncompressed input.

One can always add a comment to that effect; I need to write up the suggested 
spec for comment field format.

Monty

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.