[vorbis] flac with ogg metadata to ogg vorbis transcode, new release of vorbis-tools?

[Martin Blackwell]

OggDrop 1.6 Beta 13 might do the trick- it allows input of flac files, not
so sure about keeping the data as i havent any flac files to try it out
with. anyway......

http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/
for the rarewares site

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jfe1205/
for the place with OggDrop 1.6 Beta 13 on it (allready have it, but for some
reason i cant connect to the site at the time of sending this email)

If it doesnt work, have a word with the person who made OggDrop and ask them
to implement this feature maybe?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Randolph Carter" <mr.blue at netcabo.pt>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 12:35 AM
Subject: [vorbis] flac with ogg metadata to ogg vorbis transcode, new
release of vorbis-tools?

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> hi Is there any tool out there wich allows you to use a flac file with
> ogg metadata as an the file of origin and converts its to an ogg.vorbis
> file without losing any of the metadata tag, I know there is a perl
> script wich does something similar but it keeps the metadata in separate
> files, basicly what I am asking is if there is any application that
> would allow me to rip my cds to a lossless format with all the necessary
> info for tagging in the files themselves so i wouldn't have to go to the
> ~ trouble of re.ripping tagginf and (archiving im a directory structure
> of my choice) my entire cd colection everytime an improved version of
> vorbis-tools (specially oggenc) comes out so i could skip right to the
> number crunshing (enconding) part, since this as been a topic of
> discussion before I would like to ask is flac going to be included in
> the ogg codec list ou is a new ogg squish version coming soon anyway
> will the ability to transcode these files with oggenc without metadata
> loss be available? also on a side note after ogg 1.0 was finally out
> I've seen references on the vorbis mailing lists to some significant
> quality improvements (including some sort new lossless compression
> algorithm wich needed a multiple pass encoding process, wich although
> being usesless for live streaming it would be very goood for users who
> wich to use it for archival purposes and want maximum bag for the byte
> :) )also if i remember correctly 1.0 still lacked some features like
> peeling (well acording to the latest ogg traffic issues that seems to be
> done soon and in the quality department wavelets wich aparently these
> features were only going to come out in version 1.1 wich leads me to a
> second set of question is a new stable-version of vorbis-tools coming
> out anytime soon, what about ogg 1.1 any time.plan for these releases
> also is an update version of ogg.squish (the lossless format) scheduled?
>
> p.s.: i believe this is a redundant question but im not sure (otherwise
> I wouldn't ask) is there already an defined metadata field to contain
> the encoding and source parameters (ex ripper cdparanoia switches +
> oggenc switch and -q number)
>
> well thanks in advance for your pacience in reading this post and for
> any input you can offer, and for the development team thanks for making
> vorbis already this good and still working on making it better :) kudos
>
> oh btw that whole cd-player mod question as anyone considered moding one
> of those 100euro 8-cd digital audio players like the freecom beatman and
> its teac clone and the mpzip or the ones from imation and the really
> cheap one from compaq ? (maybe starting at a bottom of the ladder of mp3
> players and working with smaller companies or company departments might
> make it easer, if not does anyone know where to get the components to do
> a diy device of that kind with vorbis support (or better create a spec
> for an oficial xiph.org digital audio players series and making the spec
> open.source or easely licensed so small companies could build them and a
> really off the shelf components based model wich could be licensed for
> free to small so it could be built by your friendly electronics neighbor
> or local computer store? or sold in kits?
>
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