[vorbis] Re: MP3 to OGG conversion

[Mark Hetherington]

I have re-ripped all my CDs to OGG for the space savings and quality 
improvements. I think about 25% of my music collection is now ogg, some 4000 
odd tracks, and I don't rip anything new to Mp3. Slowly but surely people 
will notice and start using ogg.

Mark

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 16:22, Robert Cole wrote:
> ok. :) I get it. :) I figured there was some technical reason. My reason
> for this was much less technical. It's more along the lines of what
> Moritz mentioned someone else desired as far as dealing/supporting only
> one format. As stupid as that might sound... :)
>
> Maybe one way ogg could be pushed more is if CD rippers defaulted to
> encoding to ogg. Maybe even some that "ship" with only being able to
> handle ogg and wav formats by default and a person having to get an mp3
> plug-in if they wanted to deal with that format. Right now it tends to
> be the other way around with apps dealing with mp3 and wav and having to
> add a plug-in to deal with ogg.
>
> But I wonder if an encoder could be made to simply (famous last words...
>
> :) ) not try to compress the data again if it sees it's mp3 format and
>
> only doing what's needed to make it an ogg file. Not sure if that's
> clear enough... That make any sense? :)
>
> I was just thinking browsing around gnutella that if someone saw more
> ogg extensions instead of mp3 that they might go hunting for an ogg
> plug-in, apps, etc. Would generate more interest I would think. I mean
> sure I could put everything I do out as ogg but that wouldn't even make
> a dent in visibility. I just thought that if it was easy for someone to
> zap their existing collection to ogg then visibility would dramatically
> increase or at least could.
>

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