Is it true that oggdropXPd only works with wav files? I tried OggDrop with an aif file and nothing happens but it works fine with a wav file. oggenc.exe however works fine with aif and wav. Am I missing something? Thanks

I did not test it, but OggdropXPd should work with every file readable by libsndfile.
If you want to transcode directly from ogg or mp3, I would suggest to download Winlame (uses libsndfile and libmad for decoding) and update the included libvorbis to 1.0.

dev0

@spies:

Just uploaded V1.12 to the sites below adding aif input support. Libsndfile is only used for wav output.

john33 you are awesome! oggdropXPd now works great with my aif files, thank you very much.

Hi to everyone!

I take advantage of this thread for asking John33:

Why don't you add the mp3 support on OggDropXPd (for re-encode mp3 files)?

Well, I assume you mean transcoding mp3 to ogg? Not really a very good idea, but if you must do that then xcLAME from:http://www.inf.ufpr.br/~rja00/ will do it; it encodes, re-encodes, transcodes and decodes wav, mp3 and ogg.

I'm afraid that I shall not be adding that capability to oggdropXPd as it would make it too easy for inexperienced users to create awful sounding files and wonder what the problem was!!

Just a thought.. why not make oggdropXPd pop up a message when you try to drag an mp3 on it, explaining why it's a bad idea to transcode from mp3? I could see this as being a fairly effective means of educating people on the subject, and also to deter them from trying to do it in another program.

Regards,
ozy

The new version (1.2), just uploaded now puts out a message box if an invalid input file type is 'dropped'. It's not mp3 specific, nor does it preach about the pitfalls of transcoding since it doesn't do it!

I understand this, but people are still going to try and transcode mp3s in it, and then when it doesn't work they're going to go and get another program that does and do it anyway. By putting a message in explaining that oggdropxp doesn't do transcoding because you'll lose quality would be far more informative and educate the people who were going to transcode all their mp3s to ogg needlessly that there is no point, nay even a bad thing to do.

If the information is in their face, how can they ignore it?

I don't mean a huge multi-page leacture on transcoding, just something simple that gets peoples attention. It's bad enough having a huge amount of xing 128kbps rips floating about without 128kbps Xing rips converted to Ogg.

@John33

Thank you for the nice OggDropXpd...

I've found a annoying thing (at least with me)...

The "re-sample to" is always set to "44100" by default,
even I've changed to "48000" next time I start it again,
it will reset to "44100"...
....so is this setting is not saved in your .ini file ?

Thank you.

You're right, the setting isn't saved in the ini file. It's a bit of a dilemma really, if I save the setting, someone will complain about that!

I took the line of least resistance and decided that most people will use 44100 by default, so it defaults to that. If this is annoying to you, I'm sorry, but it's a 'no win' situation for me. I suspect if I did save the setting, it would probably upset more people!

@John33,

thank you for the explaination

I have an idea, how if use the "check box" like the "Downmix stereo to mono".
If we check the option the "re-sample" will be applied... but if we not check
the option... the re-sample will not be applied... the sample rate will be
same as the source wav... this is like the old OggDropXp do... I love it!

Btw, It's just an idea....
Thank you.

Just to prove that I listen!!

New version V1.3 uploaded to the sites below (go to the mirrors for up-to-date narrative). This version provides much better control of resampling. There are ICL and VC7 versions, but if anyone has any problems with the ICL version, I would like to know about it!

Is there a limit to the size of the wav file,
OddDropXpd will accept to encode to ogg?

Not that I know of! I have encoded a single 450MB+ wave file with no problems.

@john33,

Thank you for listening and the latest version is great.
PS. which one is faster (ICL6 or MSVC7) for Athlon Xp machine ?


@papadoc,
I've done over than 1 Gb Wav file with no problem.

I have AthlonXP 1500+
The fastest is ICL, as usual, since it uses the MMX and SSE instructions present in AthlonXP.

Regards;

Roberto.

@Roberto aka rjamorim,

Thank you again for the info.
so... better I still use the ICL6 build.