@jacqueline I scanned my CDs to #Ogg #Vorbis years ago, with the exception of classical, which I scanned to #FLAC. One of these days I will rescan my remaining CDs to FLAC.

@jor J'en parlais l'autre jour avec un ami. Dur de trouver du FLAC, voire même du Vorbis (pas parfait mais ça restait une alternative acceptable à l'époque).

Mixer des morceaux en MP3, même en 320, je confirme, ça fait saigner les oreilles. #son #music #mp3 #flac #vorbis

@planettimmy @glassbottommeg #H265 / #AVC is contested by two #PatentPools (so it's not like with #H264 / #MPEG4 that you just pay #MPEG LA a fee)...

#AV1 (#VP9 + #Opus) & #WebM (#VP8 + #Vorbis) are the way to go...
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110470250159277923

@glassbottommeg
BUT if you REALLY NEED IT:

Consider using #AV1 (#VP9 + #Opus) or #WebM (#VP8 + #Vorbis) since there are #BSD- & #MPL-licensed reference implementations for those AND they are #RoyalityFree & #PatentFree...

audioEncoder is a little script that helps me encoding my audio files.

Most of the time, I'm recording stuffs in .WAV, which is uncompressed, as you know, and I can't remember the "good" settings for those everyday audio coding formats :

#Opus (lossy, so efficient)
#MP3 (lossy, very compatible)
#OGG #vorbis (lossy)
#FLAC (lossless)

https://codeberg.org/jrm-omg/audio-encoder

#linux #bash

#BandcampFriday is upon me and I've tried to keep my goal of supporting an favourite artist or two each time.

It's fun to explore the alternatives to Spotify (which I also use) and to remember how things used to be vis-a-vis tech.

Some months ago I dug out my old "mp3-player" for a trip (worked well) and today checked what one needs to do to get a bunch of FLACs from Bandcamp to run on stock Android as #Vorbis files.
Turns out not much at all; it all just works, using the "Files" app hah.

@codl Personally I recommend #VP9 + #FLAC [#AV1] or #VP8 + #Vorbis [#WebM] instead...

I spoke too soon, got a rare email feature request for #acxi, which was actually quite valid. Extending the supported #mp3 #tags, which of course, exposed the real mess that mp3 id3.v1, v1.1, v2.2, v2.3, v24 tagging really is. While nobody really has done tagging specifications or worse, implemenations, well, at least #vorbis tags are sane and consistent and don't change version to version, and transfer natively and cleanly to #opus/#ogg.
(con'd)

... (#acxi con'd)
A few things acxi is NOT:
* a cd ripping tool. Check out #abcde, it does a good job for cli ripping tool.
* a media player
* a strong supporter of #nonfree #audio #codecs like #AAC or #MP3. It offers adequate, basic support, and that is it.

The focus is always going to be on mainly #xiph.org #vorbis things like #flac, #opus, #ogg (to a lesser extent, since vorbis has moved all dev efforts to opus).

acxi will support the others enough to let you translate them to free codecs.

OggConvert was last released in 2010.

It was a Linux program written in Python and GTK and used the GStreamer framework to convert digital audio and video files into Vorbis, Theora, VP8 and Dirac. It supported outputing audio and video into OGG, Matroska and WebM containers.

If you are looking for a modern transcoder than you take a look at HandBrake.
https://handbrake.fr

#oggconvert #linux #python #gtk #gstreamer #vorbis #theora #vp8 #dirac #ogg #matroska #webm #handbrake

https://gitlab.com/snippets/1946601/raw

#webm #icecast #streaming #mini #nc #vorbis #gisstv #giss

Quel(s) codec(s) audio utilisez-vous et pour quels usages ?

Perso, j'aime bien le MP3 pour son universalité (256 Kbps est un bon compromis) et l'AAC pour son efficacité et son (quasi) universalité (mais moins facile à encoder avec des outils gratuits).

J'aimerais bien utiliser #Vorbis ou d'autres codecs libres, mais quid de leur compatibilité de nos jours ?

Par le passé, j'ai eu utilisé WMA (facilité d'usage avec WMP), pas taper 😅

#sondage #codec #audio #quote

Using #libsndfile to read #fft #windows from a #wav file, with a backwards seek to do analysis with #overlap, works great!

However, trying the same trick with an #ogg #vorbis input fails miserably: frame rate drops from 40+ to 3 after some minutes of audio-file time :( I conjecture (based on #top and #strace logs) that it is seeking back to the start of the file and re-decoding the whole thing on every seek backwards a little bit. Unsustainable.

Workaround: #ffmpeg to decompress beforehand.