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>Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:14:41 -0600 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: "Philip M. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [vorbis] Interesting file-sharing idea > >This may be unrealistic and useless, but I've been thinking about an >interesting file-sharing solution. > >In my system, only Ogg Vorbis files may be shared, and they should all be >directly ripped from a CD. Nothing that someone would convert from MP3, >etc. While that cannot be enforceable, it should be made clear. Also, >track listings should be not filenames, but the Artist and Title of the >song as read from tags. > >Anyway, let's say I have ten CDs all converted to high-quality Ogg >Vorbis... for example, quality level 7. Someone on the system searches >for a song that I have, and decide to download it. Now here is the >important part!: the downloader is presented with a menu of the quality >that they wish to download! For example, if they are a broadband user, >they may choose to continue at quality 7, but if they are a dial-up user, >they may decide speed over quality and choose quality 2. Of course, it >should not be possible to "upgrade" to anything higher than 7 if my file >is encoded at level 7. > >With future peeling tools, this should be trivial to accomplish, without >re-encoding the file. It's true that at first, there'd be very little to >share, but if this takes off, this will be sort of a music filesharing utopia. > >TO SUMMARIZE: > > - listings read from song tags, instead of using the filename > - CD-quality songs > - bitrate peeling put to use! finally, lucrative for dial-up users! > - of course, all good features of current file-sharing tools, > like multi-host download ability and de-centralization > >What do you think? Even if this is the most unrealistic and useless idea >that you've heard, it's interesting nevertheless. Certainly something to >wish for. > > -- Philip. > Philip M. White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >A2F8 00C7 411C 4823 CCFB B0B0 75EA F071 446D A9DD > >"MP3 the king is a mighty warrior, but he's showing new wounds. >Ogg [Vorbis] is the successor to the throne ... In this case, >Open Source is not a compromise; Vorbis is the best out there." >-- Monty (Mr. Vorbis) on Slashdot ---> jab | commie | http://commie.oy.com "Less is moo" -- The Holy Mad Cow ................................. To find out, what address you were using, when joining MP3-Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/whocommie.html
