[vorbis] Vorbis transcoding for Creative Nomads

[Linus Walleij]

Forwarding a conversation with a company that provides a management tool
for transcoding Vorbis files to MP3 when communicating with the Nomad
Jukeboxes from Creative. Good initiative, and probably sounds OK too, but
would be even better with FLAC, so I'll ask about it.

Linus

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Subject: Re: Vorbis question
From:    "Red Chair" <red at redchairsoftware.com>
Date:    Tue, August 26, 2003 8:45 am
To:      "Linus Walleij" <triad at df.lth.se>
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Hi Linus,

Well, I guess the cat is out of the bag on this one now...

Yes, it was transcoding.  Whether Creative will eventually
support Ogg in the firmware I have no idea.

Hey, this new support might be of interest to the Ogg community.
 Can you refer me to someone on the Ogg team who might be able
to post a news item on the Vorbis website about Notmad 8.0 and
the Ogg transcoding support?  With this new feature, people who
keep their collections in Ogg can now more easily transfer
tracks to their Nomad players.

Cheers,
Red

--- Linus Walleij <triad at df.lth.se> wrote:
> Hello there mr Red,
>
> saw your brief and clueful statement about Ogg Vorbis... could
> you spill
> the beans on what is actually meant?
>
> Transcoding ogg -> wma/mp3 on the fly, or do you have word
> from the
> dragons mouth (Creative) that they'll actually implement it?
>
> Apart from writing part of libnjb for Linux I am also working
> with the
> Vorbis team from time to time, so I'm *quite* interested.
>
> Of course, if you remain silent I'll respect that too...
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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Red Chair Software, Inc.
red at redchairsoftware.com
http://www.redchairsoftware.com/

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