Re: [LAU] vorbis support in lame is deprecated - Linux-audio-user

6 Apr 2010

On Wed, April 7, 2010 01:26, Philipp wrote:
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  Excerpts from JÃ¶rn Nettingsmeier's message of
2010-04-07 02:16:54 +0200:
  On 04/07/2010 12:19 AM, James Morris wrote:

 $ lame -h --preset cd --ogginput azr3.ogg azr3.mp3
 sorry, vorbis support in LAME is deprecated.

 what's with that? are they just being awkward? 
 well, lame ain't an mp3 encoder, and it sure as hell ain't an ogg vorbis
 encoder, either. no harm in focusing on not doing what you don't do
 best.

 what's wrong with oggenc? 
 Uhm, lame IS an mp3 encoder, that's the only thing it is,
 but it's not a vorbis decoder.

 Deprecated usually means it will still work, but you should start
 looking for another way to decode vorbis files.
 I don't know why they chose to remove vorbis decoding capabilities but I
 wonder why it was there in the first place. 
Sorry, computers and software are tormenting me recently! I remember it
worked before, but now it just prints that message and nothing more. It
just made the task of getting audio contained within oggs burnt onto a cd
as mp3s for an mp3 cd player, that little bit easier.

I guess if they include vorbis decoding, why should they not also include
flaac decoding, etc, etc.