ripping FAQ

[Ian Malone]

On 21/09/06, Trond Danielsen <trond.danielsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As an aside, there are certainly (fairly serious) bugs in
> > gstreamer's creation of Ogg/Vorbis files (which I why I
> > don't use it), and I seem to remember that there are
> > also problems with creating mp3.
> > Grip is much easier to troubleshoot since you can
> > investigate at each stage of the rip more easily.
>
> Hmm, I did not know that. I have ripped a fair amount of cd to
> ogg/vorbis and have not experienced any problems. Could you explain a
> little bit more about the bugs in gstreamer?
>

<http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337026>
May not seem serious, but I'm not convinced it can be
retrospectively fixed in affected files as easily as claimed
(because it's difficult to check the output).  Given that
Ogg/Vorbis is supposedly a 'base' plugin I'd have thought
more attention would have been given to this easily
verifiable bug.  Files are produced that break the spec
in a fairly simple way.

(and this also stops gstreamer apps retagging Ogg files)

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imalone