On 01/27/2012 01:51 PM, Roger wrote:
> On 01/27/2012 08:06 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> May I kindly and humbly suggest that people posting on LAU as links
>> to 'straight' mp3 files also provide a link to a file in OGG format?
>> IMHO it makes sense given the nature of the list and the better
>> experience for readers/listeners and it only really takes very little
>> effort [1]
>>
>> Lorenzo.
>>
>>
>> [1] Example using oggenc (in the vorbis-tools package on debian-based
>> distros).
>> If you have the original wave file (better):
>>
>> oggenc -q 9 my_file.wav #will create my_file.ogg use -o option to
>> save to another file. See man oggenc for many more options
>>
>> If you only have an mp3 version (also requires lame):
>>
>> FILE=my_file; lame --decode $FILE.mp3 /tmp/$FILE.wav && oggenc -q 9
>> /tmp/$FILE.wav -o ./$FILE.ogg
>> # replace my_file at the beginning with the filename of the mp3 file
>> withut extension
>> # could be done without the temporary wave file through raw pipes
>> but one must know sampling rate, bitrate and channels of the file
>>
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> Hear hear on posting ogg files.
> However transcoding lossy formats is not really optimal.
>
> Roger
> _______________________________________________
I agree on that, yay for ogg. But going from a lossy to another lossy a
very bad idea indeed.
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