[vorbis] Strange encoding issue

[Jon Odegaard]

Moritz Grimm wrote:
> 
> Hm, what do you mean by "converting ... from mp3 to ogg"? If you're
> reencoding from mp3 to Ogg, don't expect any quality at neither quality
> level. Reencoding is a Bad Thing To Do, only encode from the source,
> i.e. CDs. If you're already doing that, a losslessly (FLAC) encoded demo
> clip of the problematic part plus a .ogg, at a reasonable quality
> setting, with the artifact (and a description of it if it's hard to
> hear), could help the developers to improve the encoder or fix it, if
> it's a bug.
> 
> 
> Moritz
> 

By "converting" I mean just switching the format I'm using.  I've been 
slowly (~0.6x on an unloaded K6-III/450!) going through my CD collection 
and encoding them using ogg instead of mp3.  But no, I'm not re-encoding 
any /existing/ mp3s directly to ogg...that would be kind of ridiculous.

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