[vorbis] What to do with unicode?

Ed Sweetman ed.sweetman at wmich.edu
Sat Apr 6 18:43:33 PST 2002



On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 20:21, Erik Fuller wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > i have to re-code about 1Gb of mp3's.
> > And i want to keep tags.
> 
> Arrrrrrrgh...
> 
> I don't get it: Why are there so many people who don't understand that when
> you compress data lossily twice, that you lose data BOTH times? ESPECIALLY
> when you use two different lossy encoding methods.
> 
> I shiver when I think of the day when OGG begins to become really popular
> and I log on to <insert name of favorite P2P network> and download a file that
> sounds like shite because some idiot thought he was doing the right thing by
> reencoding his 128kbps MP3 with Ogg at -q 0 <shiver>
> 

<p>Probably the same people who encode and collect 128kbps (cbr for that
matter) mp3s.  

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