In the last episode (Nov 13), Haas Wernfried said:
> hi,
> there's a recent thread about reencoding mp3, you can find it in the
> archives at:
> http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/mp3encoder/2002-August/005028.html
> to sum it up in short terms: reencoding is generally not a very
> good idea.
>
> maybe you could switch to ogg vorbis, it is designed to be able to
> peel a stream, which means reducing bitrate without reencoding, but
> afaik the tools for peeling are quite experimental / not available
> for the public yet. if you already have mp3s and not the original wav
> files, ogg would not help you anyway, as reencoding mp3 to ogg is a
> very bad idea, too. hope no one's annoyed because im advertising ogg
> here, i personally like both lame/mp3 and ogg vorbis.
Unfortunately, ogg is no good for streaming, as its minimum bitrate is
64k. Re-encoding mp3->mp3 for low bitrate streaming is usually fine,
as the artifacts generated by decoding the first mp3 stream will get
overwhelmed by the artifacts generated by dropping the bitrate down to
streaming levels anyway.
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Dan Nelson
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