[vorbis] as if you haven't seen this yet

[Robert Voigt]

On Tuesday 17 July 2001 20:32, Patrick McLean wrote:
> I'm not on the list, so cc any replies directly to my address please.
>
> I saw this discussion reading the archives, and thought I would mention an
> idea I saw in the discussion on slashdot. Someone suggested that a good way
> to do a test of lossy formats would be to take about  3 or 4 clips of
> around a minute each, encode them to vorbis, mp3, mp3pro, wma and whatever
> else you want to test, then decode them back to .wav files and post them
> for download, not giving any clue as to which format they were originally
> in (like name them clip1.wav, clip2.wav) then have people download and
> evaluate them (providing the original .wav for a reference point, of
> course)

A person with nick Addi talked about somehing like this on IRC a while ago. 
But meanwhile he disappeared...

> I might do this sometime if I have some free time and I figure out what
> tracks would be appropiate to use, they would probably have to be either
> non-copyrighted or I would have to have to get permission from the
> copywright owner (unless 1 or 2 minute clips would be covered under fair
> use, I don't know)

AFAIK it's not coverded by fair use.

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