[vorbis] intro to compressed audio tutorial

[Andy Dale]

> "Ogg supports an extensible set of tags so you can keep as much, or as
 >little information about the track as you want. No more limitations of
id3"

also make sure that you tell them that they can specify their own tags, not
just fill in the prompts but if they want to make their own custom tag such
as 'remixed by' or something that they can do that.

Andy
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nemo - earth native" <nemo at cheeky.house.cx>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:10 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] intro to compressed audio tutorial

<p>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:26:31PM -0600, Graham Mitchell did utter:
> >
> > http://cs.leander.isd.tenet.edu/~mitchell/vorbis_intro.html
> >
>
> Very cool - I've been wanting a good first point of advocacy for
converting
> the mp3heads I know. Given enough time I would have written something
myself.
>
> Some comments, I don't know if they're appropriate for this document, but
> nonetheless...
>
>
>  . The 44.1khz sample rate came about not just because it satisfied the
need
>  for a sample rate greater than 40khz (why not use a nice, round 48khz
then?)
>  ...see http://www.jthz.com/mp3/CD-44100Hz.htm for discussion on why
44.1Khz
>  was chosen.
>  (this was just a trivial point I thought I'd share :)
>
>  . The 16bit sample size of CD's implies a greater sample size is better.
>  (and indeed, 20bit CD's and DVD-audio bear this idea out). Curious then
>  that SACD gets away with a 1bit sample size?!
>  (This was (is?) one of those areas where I know enough to be dangerous,
>  not usefull. It might be worth a note regarding other media using
alternate
>  sample size/rate values to achieve similar results)
>
>  . Might it be worth noting the lossy/lossless stereo coupling at -q5 ?
>
>  . Tagging is a hot topic of course. Most mp3heads would be familiar with
>  the limitations of id3 (even if they wouldn't recognise them as
>  "limitations" unless pressed). The advanced possibilities of ogg tagging
>  might be worth a note. Even if it's something along the lines of
>  "Ogg supports an extensible set of tags so you can keep as much, or as
>  little information about the track as you want. No more limitations of
id3"
>  (I think mentioning metadata streams is a bit much though ;)
>
> I'm afraid I don't know ABR/VBR enough to help on that bit of the
document.
>
> cheers...
> .../Nemo
>
>
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