[vorbis] Joining .WAV files with ogg-vorbis

[Glendon M. Gross]

Tom Felker wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 16 October 2003 10:30 pm, fsceg1 wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> If FLAC doesn't, I'd assume OggFLAC does.  Right?
> 
> But while FLAC is lossless, it's still a waste of CPU.  For the OP:  If I only
> had Sox, I'd do this:
> 
> sox a.wav a.cdr
> sox b.wav b.cdr
> cat a.cdr b.cdr | sox -t cdr - ab.wav
> 
> This assumes you're working with CD format (44.1 kHz 2 channels 16 bit) data.
> CDR is just this data in raw form.  Otherwise, use .raw, but you'll need to
> give options to sox to specify the format.  It would be possible to do this
> with no temp space using named pipes.
> 

For the record, I was using CD audio, so this method would have worked
for me.
Nevertheless, my ear is not good enough to tell the difference between
the 
resulting file when joining quality 9 ogg files and the original file. 
So I can't help wondering if the loss might be negligible.

Regards,

Glendon Gross

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