On Sunday 09 October 2005 00:45, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Dana,
On Saturday 08 October 2005 23:32, Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Saturday 08 October 2005 12:11, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
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I've upgraded my system from 9.3 to 10.0, and I have MP3 files that I want to convert to OGG. Since MP3 files are not supported in 10.0, how should I convert them? (minus booting into windows)
First of all, MP3 software most certainly is available through the usual channels (including YaST-installable repositories).
Secondly, you should reconsider your plan to convert your MP3 files to Ogg-Vorbis. Recoding from one lossy format to another magnifies encoding artifacts considerably. You really should recapture the originals and compress them directly to Ogg (Vorbis, actually--Ogg is a file format, Vorbis is the audio encoding scheme).
I already started playing around with the conversion process, both from MP3 to OGG and from the original CD's to OGG, just to hear the difference. Also found a few perl scripts for automating the process after I do a little more experimentation. Thank you! Dana - KC9AAE