[vorbis] ReplayGain support for Vorbis

[Wilson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Moritz Grimm" <gtgbr at gmx.net>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 1:25 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] ReplayGain support for Vorbis

<p>> Kenneth Arnold wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:40:46PM -0700, volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> > > No, unfortunately.  The ReplayGain information is stored in the Vorbis
comment
> > > header, which the FLAC substream does not use.
> > Just to throw out a random idea ... wouldn't it be helpful to move the
> > Vorbis comment header to a more generic comment-scribbing system that
> > could be used for all Ogg codecs? It wouldn't have to necessarily move
> > out of the stream it's currently in, or require any changes to the
> > bitstream format at all if done right -- I'm just speaking from a
> > we'll-need-it-for-a-bunch-of-things-so-reuse-the-code point of view.
>
> Actually, I like it the way it is - replaygain, no matter how absolutely
> great it is :D, makes only sense in Vorbis streams.
>

Allow me to disagree. Disk space is so cheap now that I store my top 100
favorite CDs in lossless form, and only use lossy compression on the other
mass of disks. It would be extremely nice to be able to use Ogg FLAC for
this with ReplayGain, instead of using (potentially lossy) normalization
tricks on the front end.

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