In particular, it's important to note that transcoded MP3's, even _legally_ transcoded MP3's, should never ever ever be distributed, lest people associate the degradation in quality (even if it's something most people can't hear) with a problem in vorbis.
On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 13:32, Julien Danjou wrote: > Le Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:18:41PM +0200, Paul Dwerryhouse a écrit: > > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 02:29:22PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > > > I'm staying neutral on the quality issue. Yes, degrading mp3s into oggs > > > sucks. Yes users should have a choice. I don't know which is more > > > important > > > in this case. > > > > Put it in and whack a f*cking huge warning message everytime the program > > is run ... something like "YMMV", but a little more educational. > > I will put a note in README.Debian. > > > For what it's worth, I've converted a good number of 128kB/s mp3s to ogg > > today for personal testing purposes (my original CDs, from which they were > > ripped, are in another country) and they sound fine to me. I suspect > > a good number of other people would be happy enough with such a > > situation, so why not make it easy for them? > > I agree with you. I have converted most of my MP3 in ogg, and the sound > is not so bad for me. > > -- > Julien Danjou > > .''`. Debian developer > : :' : http://jdanjou.org > `. `' http://people.debian.org/~acid > `- GPG: 9A0D 5FD9 EB42 22F6 8974 C95C A462 B51E C2FE E5CD > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Jeremy Nickurak -= [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-