[vorbis] Re: Debian mp3->vorbis transcoding

[Moritz Grimm]

Vance Roussin wrote:
> Is it not the 1st commandment of engineering:
> Never under-estimate the stupidity of your user(s).

The only reasons for such a tool to exist can be education - to help
those who have to explain the same thing over and over again. A tool
like that cannot do anything useful for those who actually use it. The
other reason would be to write the tool faster than some idiot, who
happens to be able to write such a thing without knowing anything about
lossy audiocoding (thus leaving the impression to the user that
mp3->Vorbis makes sense/improves quality/whatever). So many really
stupid things, like ID3 tags in .ogg files, already happened, so this is
just a matter of time.

Therefore, I really hope that if that thing has to be done, it contains
at least two questions that must be answered with "yes", not only "y" or
[Enter].

-//-
MP3 makes the sound different in order to compress it. Vorbis cannot
guess how it was supposed to sound. Vorbis will make the sound even more
different. Are you sure that you want that? [ yes | No ]

yes

Did you understand the previous question? The resulting .ogg file will
sound worse than the MP3. To enjoy Vorbis' superior quality, you have to
encode directly from the source, e.g. from CD. You could use the time
this tool needs in more useful ways. Are you *really* sure? [ yes | No ]

yes

As you wish, you have been warned. Please don't share the resulting
file(s) as they cannot sound as good as any properly encoded .ogg file.
-//-

<p>Moritz
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