[vorbis] reencoding OGG Vorbis

[Moritz Grimm]

Steven Bailey 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)

For me, the following scenario would be especially cool to have:

When mastering a tune digitally, you have several stereo tracks (approx.
10 - 20, depending on the tune), of with each of them eats up ~10 MB /
minute. You easily get up to 2 GB space needed on your harddrive if you
_only_ keep the original tracks and the altered ones. If you want to
keep all intermediate steps, you need temporarily up to 10 GB per tune.
This is damn much. To maintain the good quality of the tracks it would
be necessary to use the highest possible bitrate, of course. But being
able to load (decode) and save (encode) tracks within a simple or
multitrack wave editor, would be a great thing. The requirement for not
screwing up what you're working on would be a lossless recoding.

I think I could fudge some other scenarios, but this is the important
one to me.

Moritz

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