[vorbis] quality vs bitrate

[Trick]

The problem is that the mp3 dewdz will be used to looking at bitrates to 
determine quality, so the solution (as several here say) seems to me to just 
rip out anything mentioning bitrate from the simple tools.

But, they will still see the bitrate in players like winamp.

To solve this, why not store the quality setting used when encoding into the 
ogg file itself ? Either use a field unused when using the quality setting, 
or store it in a tag. Current decoders won't be broken, newer decoders can 
take advantage of it.

Player plugins could then use this to show in stead of bitrate, fx. "Q3" in 
stead of "112 kpbs". IIRC the cd player plugin does something like this in 
winamp - been a long time since i've used windows now though =)

Anyway, what do you think ? Could this be done ?


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