In talking with a few friends the other day, I showed them Vorbis. They
loved the sound quality and said it sounded than MP3. However, they
mentioned the one thing that I feel is stopping the massive growth in terms
of adoption. They arent many programs that burn Vorbis Ogg to audio CD
around. Of the programs that are around, Sonic Foundry Siren has the
clunkiest interface and only records TAO. Then there is Media Jukebox which
has the same clunky interface and decodes to wav file before burning.
My question to the group is does Vorbis really take that much CPU time that
it has to be decoded to a wav file before burning? I feel that programs like
MusicMatch and Nero realize that your normal consumer doesnt want to take
the extra step and convert to wav much less know how to do it. Those, like
myself, who have no life, dont mind archiving in Vorbis and then making
compilations from them. But for your average consumer, they wont mess with
Vorbis because of this.
My friend called me yesterday and said that he encoded 10 CDs the previous
night. He said "I got them encoded but what if I want to make a compilation
from them?" I told him where to download the tools to decode to wav files
and right there he lost intrest.
Has anyone been in contact with MusicMatch or Nero to see if they will
support Vorbis? It would make sense monetarily as there is no associated
costs that I am aware of. But I strongly feel that regardless of the quality
that Vorbis offers, the average consumer will not adopt our beloved format
of choice until there is a simple way to make an audio CD.
What is everyone else's thoughts?
Patrick Masters
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