[vorbis] reencoding OGG Vorbis

[Segher Boessenkool]

Moritz Grimm wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Inspired by the discussion about mixing Vorbis streams and so on I came
> to the question whether Vorbisstreams can be, just like MP3, reencoded
> without further loss.
> 
> 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?

No, but not with mp3, either. With most mp3 encoders, a file that has
been 10 to 20 times recoded sounds very bad.

Cheers,

Segher

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