[vorbis] What to do with unicode?

[Andreas Karlsson]

At 20:01 2002-04-06 -0800, you wrote:

>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.

There is really no point to waste energy on such a project. That has
nothing to do with the goal of making Ogg Vorbis.
 From http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html:

"This places Vorbis in the same competetive class as audio representations
such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than
MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC"

Why try to convince Joe-mp3-leecher with, say "Look Ogg sounds exactly like
your mp3´s but is FREE, why don´t you convert?". The answer will probably
be that he won´t bother because he didn´t pay for a singel licence and he
copied all mp3´s from hes friends or from any P2P-network.

The only thing to do is to fight with the REAL issues of truth; soundquality.
Ogg sounds better that any lossy format I´ve ever heard. I know it, you know
it. Therefor it´s better to compress <your-favourite-cd> to Ogg and let your
frends decide. If they don´t hear the diffrence they´ll probably notice the
smaller filesize. To make Oggenc recognice a mp3 and just make the
best of the situation is just ... wasted.

All IMHO.

//Andreas Karlsson

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