[vorbis] MP3 to OGG conversion

[Robert Cole]

I've done a little searching of the mailing lists before posting this
and found a few threads on converting from mp3 to ogg but no one that
I've seen ever answers the question.

a .wav file is a digital format is it not? I'm no video/audio guru by
any stretch so if I'm wrong on that point please correct me. But for
this message I'm going to assume .wav is a digital format. .mp3 is a
digital format as well right? Again I'm going to assume the same thing
for the moment until corrected.

Given that these two are digital formats and from what I can gather from
the archives there is very little quality loss converting from .wav to
.ogg at least from what I can see in the archives anyway. 

I see allot of "VERY BAD" type of things when talking about mp3 to ogg
but nothing of the sort from wav to ogg. So one last assumption here is
that there is very little loss from wav to ogg.

That being the case WHY is there a problem converting from mpg (digital)
to ogg? Why doesn't oggenc do that? Why does oggenc do wav (digital) but
not mp3 (digital)?

Give me a break here it just doesn't make any since? There are a TON of
mp3 files out there and if one uses gnutella to get those files of
course one doesn't have the source in which to do a "proper" rip to ogg.

So this request for a utility to convert mp3 to ogg has probably been
heard a million times before and will be heard a million times more
until such a utility exists! Geez were talking about what would probably
be the next "killer app" of the internet here. OF COURSE people will
want to convert mp3 to ogg!!! Geez!

I'm behind the ogg format 110% but it will NEVER go anywhere fast UNTIL
utilities to convert mp3 to ogg with very little quality loss exists!

So come on coders! Get with it! This utility MUST exist! And in many
different forms! I personally feel oggenc should do it.

Robert

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