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I backed up my entire CD collection to Flac (350+) to avoid losing them to scratches, laser burns, etc. Now I'm wondering how RG affects the Wav file produced from Flac decompresion if I used the following command with CDex: -8 -V -T artist="%a" -T album="%b" -T title="%t" -T date="%y" -T tracknumber="%tn" -T genre="%g" --replay-gain

I am using CDex to encode my music into Flac. I am using the latest version of Flac (with the frontend etc.) and sending the rips to it as an 'external encoder' with the string: -8 -o %2 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%b" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%tn" -T "genre=%g" - However, I am getting the below output/error with

Well it says: "With this option, Flac will create a parallel decoder that decodes the output of the encoder and compares the result against the original." My question still remains. With "on the fly encoding" it encodes as it rips. It does not create an intermediate WAV file and then converts. So if verification is indeed taking place, does it mean it verifies against the

Thanks for all the great responses on tools to use - I have Exact Audio Copy and CDex working very well, and I've been working out all the kinks. Two questions, one very Vorbis related, one not :) 1) I know people have asked many times "What quality should I use". Well, I want to ask it again but in a narrower frame. I see less than 10% difference in size between 4.99 and 5.00 -

I've had this problem encoding oggs where the output file is small, like 24kbytes for a 4 minute song (tested at 128 and 160kbit). I'm running Windows 2000 and this has happened in oggenc, oggdrop, and CDEX, though I've also been able to get good encodings with each of these. I think the only clean encodings have been .wav's that I've made myself with SoundForge or CoolEdit,

Hello all, I seem to be in a bit of a bind. Below is the email which I sent to the list a while back. I wrote the vast majority of my CD collection to Flac and checked them with the Flac test (the -t option of Flac), they played fine and all seemed wonderful. Sadly life is no longer roses and chocolates. Now as I come to rip the whole lot to Vorbis files, Oggenc is spewing an error that the

Where did your rip files come from? Are they WAVE or AIFF? My hunch is that technically bad files were created when you ripped your CDs. "data pad byte" sounds like one of those things that is required in WAVE/AIFF, but many application developers miss. As a result of the various errors out there, many tools will accept bad audio files without complaint, others will point out

I think the new web page is wonderful. However, one thing annoyed me. Some programs on 'Other Software Which Supports Ogg Vorbis' page at Vorbis.com seems to be bit problematic. As far as I know, at least two of them have not updated their plug-ins for a while. 1. 'CD-DA X-Tractor' vorbenc-20001018.zip as 'Latest released version of vorb_enc.dll' 2. 'Media

ok, i'm puzzeled here I just recently reinstalled windows 2k, and i've been useing EAC to rip my CDs for a while now. i wanted to test it out (i had to reconfigure it) so i put in a burned CD with a few pretty bad scratches (used a hunting knife to make em) When i rip it i don't get any errors (with CDex to) but of course when i listen to it i hear them. This is strange bceause

Once i've run into misfeature. I've grabbed an Audio CD with one of russian opera's, and its comment been wirttenas a 8-bit ANSI text. When i tried to play them in WnAMP - the comments were unreadable. Peter (the author of WinAMP OGG plugin) told me, that the comments must be encoded using UTF-8. I wrote it to the author of AudioGrabber and he told me he will forward it to plugin

hello I can't use cdex here is my error log could vorbis be the colpret? Event Type: Error Event Source: Application Error Event Category: None Event ID: 1000 Date: 7/9/2003 Time: 3:53:16 PM User: N/A Computer: HOME-XS1NC5AM3V Description: Faulting application cdex.exe, version 1.0.0.1, faulting module speex32.acm, version 1.0.0.0, fault address 0x0000b1fa. For more information, see Help

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Greetings Fellow Vorbis Gurus! How can I encode, using CDex, at a CBR (constant bit rate) rather than the VBR? Also, can one take a 128kbs MP3 file and re-encode it to ogg? If so, please explain the procedure. By the way, I'm using a Windows based system. Thank you! /jp/ dojpaul@coffey.com --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage:

Not too long ago, I converted my whole cd library to OGG format, because I loved the way it sounded, and the fact that is was open source. Recently, I wanted to update my library with the latest CVS code. I just did a compile of the CVS ogg binaries (ogg.dll, vorbis.dll, vorbis_enc.dll, vorbis_file.dll), and I noticed they were alot larger in size than the default ones that came with CDex. I

One thing that has always bothered me about the ogg format is the distortion of high frequency sounds - even at data rates as high 128 and 160 kbps. I find the best way around this is to resample the wav file to 48 kHz (using SoundForge 6.0) before encoding (using CDex) to ogg. It takes a while, and adds a lot of extra wear and tear on my drive, but what a difference! The result is an 80k ogg file

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, ince I'm currently working on a program that manages all my music files and am working on Ogg Vorbis support right now, I have two questions: 1. Should Tag names (i.e. "ARTIST=") be lower- or uppercase. I've encountered both and right now I automatically uppercase everything I get and then write it to the file that way. 2.

Hi all! I've read http://reactor-core.org/ogg-tagging.html and http://www.vorbis.com/ot/20030303.html#id2726753 about the goals and non-goals of vorbis comments, but I'm still unsure: 1) Is it by purpose to forget about CDA's index feature because it's so rarely used or did nobody here ever thought about it? -> Add an INDEXNUMER field? 2) If "Vorbis comments are the

Hi all, Have trouble encoding / playing back OGG using WinAmp + plugin. I encoded the files from .WAV with Ogg drop RC2. Seems to be ok. When I try and play them back though I get very very weird sound effects (some kind of "wobbling", some bass frequencies that are usually in the background seem to get more emphasised and they seem to have some kind of strange echo / reverb to it

Hi, I'm wondering: If you have audio files like foo1.ogg and foo1.mp3, and the Vorbis file has nice comments (title, tracknumber, artist, album, date, etc), is there a tool to copy the information to an MP3 file on a "best effort" strategy? I know that MP3 TAGs are quite limited regarding lengths. Regards, Ulrich

In my efforts to convince people to hear how good Vorbis is when compared to MP3, I'm gonna be encoding tracks from my CD collection to both formats, then writing them to audio CD, so people don't have to install extra software to hear the difference. Has anyone got some suggested specs for the options for MP3 encoding when using CDex or Chun-Yu's MP3 writer for winamp (preferably in