[Vorbis] DRM and Ogg Vorbis ??

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Mon Feb 13 10:29:03 PST 2006


J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:

> 
> Finally, when I buy music I would prefer to buy a FLAC compressed from an
> uncompressed recording of the artist, not some lossy-compressed variant (no
> matter how high-quality the encoding).  I can make my own lossy encodings, but I
> can't reconstruct the information that was lost when the lossy encoding was made.

Actually I've heard this can be a problem; you have to educate your
artists to provide FLAC (this is actually somewhere that WMA lossless
wins in ease of use—it looks like the same format to the end user).
I think not all Magnatunes recordings are available in Ogg.

-- 
imalone


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