[vorbis] "Quality" vs. "bitrate"

[fungus]

I just had another thought on this topic.

What if we have a setting to select the maximum possible
bitrate instead of a target bitrate setting.

This satisfies the streaming people, but means that for
an ordinary user to set a bitrate he'll have to set the
quality to 9.999999 *and* the maximum bitrate to whatever
he wants.

ie. If he sets quality to "near CD" and max_bitrate to
"128" then he's most likely going to get 80kbs anyway.

They'll have to think laterally to get winamp to say
"128". Even if he/she figures it out they'll have selected
"archive quality" from the menu so they'll be thinking
"hey, this can do *archive quality* at only 128kbits!!!"

<p>So, no "target bitrate" setting anywhere in the program,
just "quality" and "maximum bitrate" settings.

I can't see any real use for a "minumum bitrate" setting.

Can anybody think of a reason this wouldn't work out for
everybody involved?

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