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

[Lorenzo Sutton]

On 27/01/12 12:57, alexander wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>> 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.
On 01/27/2012 08:06 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:

 >>> If you have the original wave file (*better*):
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 >>> *If* you only have an mp3 version (also requires lame):
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