[vorbis] reencoding OGG Vorbis

[Oddsock]

At 06:48 AM 2/21/2001, you wrote:
> > >As I heard, and I am pretty sure that it's true, MP3 files can be
> > >decoded and reencoded unlimited times without further quality loss (of
> > >course the same encoder with the same preferences has to be used all the
> > >time). Is this also possible with .OGG?
>
>Maybe I'm missing the point, but why on earth would you WANT to do
>something like that?  I've heard of people (usually uninformed people)
>decoding a song from one format and then trying to encode it in another,
>but just doing encode-decode cycles in the same format?  Even if you
>could do such a thing without quality degradation, why do it in the
>first place?
>
>peri

I've done this for a few things...I've got a Memorex MP3 CD player which 
only plays MP3s sampled at 44kHz...Much of my collection of Old Time Radio 
shows are 32/22, and would not play on the player at all....by using LAME, 
I could upsample them to 32/44...this goes through a decode/encode step to 
do it...the resultant output was indistinguishable at that bitrate 
(granted, not the highest quality)...Either way, there are  some uses for 
reencoding into the same format....

oddsock

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