Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-03T16:34:13Z, "Joe Sotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, not the first time today someone thought I was confued. Hey, I'm useless until the first cup of coffee sinks in. > Thanks. I thought a wav file and flac file occupied a similar place in > the food-compression chain. So a

Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Sotham
Kirk Strauser said: > The main difference is that a flac file can be decompressed into a > bit-for-bit identical copy of the original file, whereas a decompressed > mp3 > bears almost no resemblance to the original. Yes, not the first time today someone thought I was confued. Thanks. I thought a

Re: [slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-03T16:16:47Z, "Joe Sotham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital > source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I think you may be mixing up the concepts slightly. A flac file is similar to

[slightly OT] Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-03 Thread Joe Sotham
> Yes, flac (part of the OGG/et al group now I guess) lives in the > audio/flac > port. :) I am migrating an audio tape collection to mp3. Is flac a better digital source than wav file from which to undertake the conversion to ogg or mp3. I do not require an archival quality process only one tha

Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-02 Thread Chip Norkus
On Sun Feb 02, 2003; 11:50AM -0500 stan propagated the following: > Is there a good lossless audio encoder in the ports tree? > Yes, flac (part of the OGG/et al group now I guess) lives in the audio/flac port. :) > -- > "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve > n

Re: Losless audio encoder

2003-02-02 Thread Andrew Y Ng
On 0, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a good lossless audio encoder in the ports tree? yes! ports/audio/shorten ports/audio/shntool and a plugin for xmms in ports/audio/xmms-shn /ayn -- andrew y ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://andrewng.com independent computer consultants http://ayn