[vorbis] just an idea about quality evaluation

[John Morton]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:33, Graham Mitchell wrote:
> > I also don't know of any player
> > that supports .ogg but NOT .mp3, so why re-encode?
>
> Umm, ogg123?
>
> I'm actually not kidding; I use a modified "run as a daemon and control
> with signals" ogg123 for my jukebox in my classroom at school.  Sometimes I
> get some music which is only available as an mp3 (the MiniBosses, for
> example), so I uncompress it and then go to ogg at q10.  It's stored on a
> largish hard drive, so the occasional huge file isn't an issue, but the
> format is.
>
> Of course, I won't be handing out the transcoded files to tout the smaller
> size/higher quality of ogg. :)  Or actually handing out any oggs at all
> other than songs I compose myself.  I don't do "file sharing".

Are you using any kind of 'this file was transcoded from...' comment at all? 
I'm curious to know if there's any kind of growing de facto standard.

John
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