[vorbis] Re: Debian mp3->vorbis transcoding

[Peter Nyhlen]

> apologise for the mistake). I also observed that if such transcoding is
> really necessary, it's as trivial as decoding the mp3 to .wav and then
> vorbis-coding the .wav, therefore a dedicated program isn't really
> worthwhile.

Except that you lose any comments from the original file.
Hopefully the transcoder would add a tag stating that it
sounds crappy because it started life as an mp3.

At any rate I agree you should leave your mp3s 'AS IS' and
only oggenc your *.wav, *.au, and *.aiff files.

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