[vorbis] Vorbis native Ripper-decoder-encoder

[Benjamin Flanders]

I just thought of a crazy Idea(tm).  The tag system
for ogg is very flexible.  Why don't we just create a
tag that the transcribing software would set to true
if the song was first decoded from another lossy
format.  Or even have the tag set to the bit rate (or
average bit rate for LAME) of the original format.
This way the folks with the discerning ear can weed
out those songs before being downloaded.  I believe
ogg is set up in such a way to make it possible to
download the tag without downloading the whole song.
Does anyone see a problem with this?

"Straddling the fence is a good way to become a
eunuch"
ben

--- Hongli Lai <hongli at telekabel.nl> wrote:
> On 2001.08.04 01:48:55 +0200 Benjamin Flanders
> wrote:
> > Why lose so much sound quality to change mp3's to
> ogg?
> >  They can live in harmony side by side.
> 
> Why not save some disk space by converting them?
> Many users can't hear difference between trascoded
> MP3<->Vorbis.
> I certainly can't (I don't hear ANY difference
> between 128k
> MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, even with my headphones and a
> high volume).
> 
> The point is, some people wants to save disk space,
> while the quality
> loss is within acceptable range to them.
> 
> 
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