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

[Graham Mitchell]

> 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

Interesting idea, but as Kyungjoon already alluded to, this wouldn't gain any 
Ogg supporters.

1) Converting an mp3 to a vorbis file will ALWAYS result in a file which 
sounds *worse* than the original mp3, due to the very nature of transcoding.

2) There's basically no player that plays vorbis audio but not mp3.  That is, 
if it will play an ogg it'll play the mp3 anyway.

Leave your mp3s as mp3s.  Encode new music (from CD) as ogg.  Download oggs if 
you have the option.  But don't convert mp3 or other formats to vorbis, 
because it'll just make people think that vorbis sounds that bad to begin 
with.

For more information about this, you might be interested in my (somewhat dated 
but still popular) Introduction to Compressed Audio with Ogg Vorbis; it 
explains many of the technical details you seem to be fuzzy on.

	http://grahammitchell.com/writings/vorbis_intro.html

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Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School
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 	-- Charles Spurgeon