[vorbis] reencoding OGG Vorbis

[Richard Polton]

Take a look at http://flac.sourceforge.net for lossless audio encoding.
It's early days, but looks promising.

Moritz Grimm wrote:

> 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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