mmh, maybe my mail was a little bit too sarcastic... let's try again, seriously this time.
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:36 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote: > Sandy: > > > Huh? Isn't FLAC a *compressed* format? Lossless != uncompressed. > > Sorry, my confusion. The current Sound Theme spec only has supported > sound file formats for uncompressed and compressed formats. > > I think most people who deal with audio care more about lossy versus > lossless formats than whether the data is compressed or not. Most > people would probably prefer compressed as a default due to the large > size of audio files. > > I think the spec should, at the very least, include FLAC as the > recommended compressed lossless format and OGG/Vorbs as the > recommended compressed lossy format. I completely agree; the lossless/lossy distinction is far more important than the compressed/uncompressed one. > If people think an uncompressed lossless format has any value, then it > we should consider a better format than WAV, which has a 4 GB filesize > limitation, while Sony Media WAV 64 (W64) allows for longer recording > times. I have my share of doubts that we're going to hit the 4GB limit for the sound effects of a theme. 4GB of 44.1 kHz WAV is basically 100 minutes of sound - I don't plan to listen to a sample for that kind of duration when I get an error message, or when I log in. we might phase out WAV and use something new, sure, but not for the file size limit - in the sound theme spec context, obviously. ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi, W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
