Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.

[Alexandro Colorado]

On Tue, 29 May 2007 01:32:32 -0500, Karl Fogel  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi, I'm sending two independent ideas in one email here.  I'm not sure
> that's wise -- feel free to respond using separate mails :-).
>
> 1. Does anyone have the resources to set up an automated conversion
>    site?  That is, a website that accepts MP3 files and gives you back
>    an Ogg Vorbis file?  Although I ask "anyone", I guess "the FSF" is
>    the likeliest candidate to do this.
>
>    An automated converter (for both MP3 and WAV) would make things a
>    lot easier for people.  I understand there may be some technical
>    difficulty going from MP3 to Ogg Vorbis without compromising
>    quality, but don't know how severe that problem is -- is it a
>    showstopper?

Not really is actually very easy to do from a Linux machine. you just need  
a simple script to accept the file (upload form) run mp32ogg command from  
the command line, and push the output as a download. This is similar to  
the encoding files that are webbased.

There is even a class for ogg from PHP so you can do this from php as  
opposed to CGI
http://leknor.com/code/

>    When I mentioned this idea to a friend (Seth Schoen), he worried
>    there might be copyright concerns, similarly to how YouTube got hit
>    with infringement suits on the grounds that in order to convert
>    video data to their streaming format, they had to first make a copy
>    of the data, and making that copy was already an infringement. (!)

Depends really, I mean just because is webbase doesn't mean that you are  
company or liable to do the encoding. Plus you can just put the service in  
Russia and you are fine :)

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