[vorbis] Joining .WAV files with ogg-vorbis

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>===== Original Message From "Glendon M. Gross" <gross at xinetd.com> =====
>I get a few complaints from sox about "holes in the file, probably
>harmless."
>But the resulting file has a nice RIFF header and works fine for me.  So
>after searching the internet for an easy way to combine .wav files, I am
>glad to discover that xiph's commitment to open standards has solved one of
>my problems caused by a bad design of a proprietary standard.  :)
>
I can see one immediate problem with this: Vorbis is a lossy format, where as
WAV is a lossless format. This means that the resultant WAV is of a lower
quality than either input. I don't know if FLAC works like this, but if it
does, then since FLAC is lossless, it should work much better. Indeed, FLAC
stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. That means that you can transcode FLAC >
WAV all you want without any loss of data.

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