Re: [Banshee-List] encode HTC G1 sync to ogg

[rickstone <rhadenstone gmail com>]

There is a feature such as this in Amarok 1.4.x, whereby in the device setup
page you can specify no transcoding, transcoding always to x format, or
transcode only when necessary.

Shouldn't be that hard to implement something similar.


Alan McGovern-2 wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> Firstly, i know where you're coming from with that email. But it's not
> quite
> the point ;) I store my music on my computer as 256kbps MP3. My computer
> has
> plenty of harddrive space so this is OK. I have a 16GB portable device
> which
> supports AAC and MP3. I have two choices:
> 
> 1) Don't put all the music I want on my player
> 2) Transcode to AAC 96/128kbps and lose a small bit of quality and fit all
> my music on with room to spare.
> 
> For me 1 is not an option because if i wanted that, i'd have bought a 4gb
> or
> 8gb player for 1/2 the price. I currently do 2 and use a separate
> transcoder. This is a pain in the ass. If i could auto-transcode, that'd
> be
> awesome. That's why this feature is important.
> 
> Alan.
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Eef Hartman
> <E J M Hartman tudelft nl>wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 04:26:57PM -0700, fahadayaz wrote:
>> > would therefore take better advantage of the device if i had the option
>> of
>> > having the sync use a smaller file size/same quality format.
>>
>> Conversion from a "lossy" format like MP3 to another lossy format like
>> OGG Vorbis will _always_ loose quality.
>> Coming from i.e. flac, yes, that would well be possible, but not from
>> mp3 and (I believe) wma (that is: without LOSS of quality).
>>
>> The thing is, the algorithmns work differently so to convert, you first
>> have to expand to a wav-like stream ("inventing" sounds not stored
>> in the file) and this stream will then be coded into the "other" format
>> (OGG Vorbis) without the coder knowing which values are "rubbish", just
>> created through interpolation during the expansion.
>> So the coder will throw away "good" values and keep "interpolated" ones,
>> making the result even less true to the original sound stream then the
>> mp3 (or whatever) already was.
>>
>> When coding TO some lossy format, always try to start from a loss-less
>> format (like especially wav), because then  you won't have cumulative
>> losses.
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