[vorbis] Vorbis native Ripper-decoder-encoder

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 09:49:22PM -0700, Benjamin Flanders wrote:
> 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?

It the tool additionally warned users that transcoding should be
avoided where possible, this would be an acceptable solution.

Though, I'd hate too see Vorbis advocates transcoding large MP3
collections just to boost the amount of OGGs available online.

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