[vorbis] What to do with unicode?

[HJ]

Re: below, you know it's inevitable, so... the question is, in my
opinion, -can there be made a way to do direct frame-conversations-?

I probably don't know WTF I'm talking about, but instead of, say,
re-compressing, what of a utility that does a 'direct-convert' from
MP3 to Vorbis? It would seem to me to be hairy, if simple in
concept.

Instead of running through the standard encoding procedure, and
instead of having these people dump out to WAVs, it'd read a MP3
file natively (patent issues here? use LAME? eh? something?) and
simply do as best a job it can at KEEPING all the data possible
instead of compresing it while converting the audio stream.

Frame-by-frame conversion if you will. Probably a heck of a lot of
work for just a propoganda engine, but if you're worried that Vorbis
is "too complex" to be used by the average schmoe it might be worth
saving public face as well as boasting a new feature which will
leave people thinking that 'some tracks are really sweet' (which
were encoded properly in the first place) while those that happen to
be direct-converted mp3's to say 'I don't get it, it sounds exactly
the same!'; at least it would be different than 'this sucks, it
sounds like crap!' as almost-quoted below.

<p>I know I'd use one, but alas, I lack the expertise.
And, obviously, likely unfeasible, but still on my wishlist I
suppose. (I'd love to toast any and all MP3's on my machine,
nevermind that they're legally gotten independant bands and friends'
original garage bands and so on.) O:)

<p>~HJ

--- Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman at wmich.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 20:21, Erik Fuller wrote:

> > 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>

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