On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:26:24PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:17, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Whenever the subject of mp3->vorbis (or wma->vorbis, or any other lossy > > codec to vorbis) transcoding comes up on the vorbis mailing list, the > > reaction from the vorbis developers and the more knowledgeable vorbis > > users is "don't do it". Aside from the effect on quality, the vorbis > > developers are also concerned with the effect on vorbis's reputation of > > the P2P sharing networks becoming flooded with crappy-sounding > > mp3->vorbis transcoded files. > > I support excluding mp32ogg from Debian for this reason. We want to respect > the wishes of the upstream developers, and we want to help promote free > software in every way possible. > > Including software that is likely to tarnish the image of a good free > software project in favour of a non-free project is not something that we > want. > > Besides I expect that anyone could write a simple shell script to do the same > thing.
mp32ogg has gotten a lot of attention the last couple days. Several releases ago, the vorbis guys asked me to have it add a tag to the ogg files created, to mark them as having been transcoded from an mp3 file. It looks something like: transcoded=mp3;128 and while it isn't great, it's better than nothing. I totally agree that mp32ogg hurts audio quality, and part of me wishes I never wrote it. The other part of me realizes that people are going to convert with or without the script, and adding that tag automatically will at least do some good. Package it or not, I really don't care. Mandrake is the only other distro that I know has it packaged, and I don't know if they'll be keeping it or not. Nathan Walp mp32ogg upstream author, who has been re-ripping his CDs since vorbis hit 1.0 ;-) -- Nathan Walp || [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: || http://faceprint.com/ 5509 6EF3 928B 2363 9B2B DA17 3E46 2CDC 492D DB7E
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