Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.

[Karl Fogel]

"Pandu E Poluan" <address@hidden> writes:
> Transcoding from one lossy format onto another will always degrade
> quality. See http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Transcoding
> for a description and illustration.
>
> Assuming that the original MP3 is good (e.g. encoded using LAME),
> transcoding to a similar bitrate or slightly-lower bitrate should not
> degrade too much; that's my experience transcoding from 128 kbps MP3's
> to ~128 kbps (approx) Ogg Vorbis, or even to ~96 kbps (approx) Ogg
> Vorbis.
>
> Problem is if you have a sucky MP3, transcode to a too-low Ogg
> Vorbis... then people will complain that Ogg Vorbis destroys their
> song.

Can such suckiness be detected automatically?  Then the site could
refuse to do the conversion, or at least warn the user...

-Karl