Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

[Andreas Rottmann <a.rottmann@gmx.at>]

Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> writes:

> Robert Millan wrote:
> 
> > * Package name    : oggasm
> >   Upstream        : Sean Kellogg <skellogg@u.washington.edu>
> > * URL             : http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/
> > * License         : GPL
> >   Description     : MP3 to Ogg converter
> > 
> > I'm not the ITPer, Sean Kellogg <skellogg@u.washington.edu> packaged
> > orgasm but haven't moved to include it in debian. I'm contacting him.
> 
> Funny you should bring this up today; we've just been debating an ITP
> of another mp3->vorbis converter, with several of us arguing that
> such programs are
> 
> 1) a bad idea because converting mp3 to vorbis creates bad-quality
>    vorbis files full of mp3 artifacts;
> 
> and
> 
> 2) unnecessary, because the conversion is trivial.
> 
oggasm also tags the .ogg files based on the MP3 tags and/or filename,
so this is not *that* trivial.

Regards, Andy
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