[LAU] [OT]: Publish music also in OGG format please?

[Roger]

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