[Vorbis] Firefox plugin to auto convert audio files into Ogg

Denise techmum at gmail.com
Thu Feb 16 03:58:40 PST 2006


James

You are right >

There is a big risk that many users would not appreciate or even be
aware of the reason for a lower level of quality.

Back to the drawing board > there must be other ways to help OGG
become the #1 digital audio format!


On 2/16/06, James <bjlockie at lockie.ca> wrote:
> On 1/10/2006 12:36 AM Denise spoke:
> > On 1/10/06, Kyungjoon Lee <kjoonlee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 1/9/06, Denise <techmum at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> per > http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=63653
> >>>
> >>> The above thread on the Fedora Forums about a script that can
> >>> automatically convert one audio format to another got me thinking >
> >>>
> >>> wouldn't it be fantastic to be able to right click on an MP3 (or other
> >>> audio file) while in Firefox, and automatically have the file
> >>> converted into Ogg at the same time as the file is being saved
> >> Personally I wouldn't touch such extensions with a 10-foot pole. I
> >> don't want to recompress my files and make them potentially sound
> >> worse, get larger, or both.
> >>
> >> I *might* try it if it acted on lossless/uncompressed sources only,
> >> but not if it recompresses.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Kyungoon Lee
> >>
> >
> > Idea is to expand the usage of Ogg amongst new users.
> >
> > Hence, it would be an evolutionary step - not the final goal.
> I applaud your goal but converting from a lossy format (MP3) to another
> (OGG) will result in bad sounding files and then users will think OGG
> sounds bad.
> It is not a positive first exposure.
>


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