Re: New svn module: gnome-sound-theme

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 22:14 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 09/08/2008 alle 20.00 +0100, Alexander Jones ha scritto:
> > Why did you convert them to a lossy format? Convert losslessly FLAC if
> > you need to, but what was wrong with the uncompressed WAV files?
> 
> It's uncompressed, IMHO ;-)
> 
> >From Sound Theme Spec:
> 
>         The mandatory supported sound file formats are WAV/PCM 8-48kHz,
>         8/16bits, and OGG/Vorbis. WAV at 48kHz/Stereo is the recommended
>         uncompressed format, and OGG/Vorbis is the recommended
>         compressed format. The sample must be normalized, in order to be
>         mixed down nicely with a suitable average replay level.

Whatever.

You should be creating the sound file on-the-fly from the original
files, rather than uploading a single version you created one day.

Or at least upload the original files and make it easier for people to
replace the files. The wave files are the "sources".