Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/09/06, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sunday 03 September 2006 23:32, suse@xxxxxx wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Has anyone here used an ogg to mp3 converter?  I have a large library
> > of mp3's, and I really don't feel like feeding all my old CD's
> > through again.  I know they exist (with a quick google search), but
> > I'd like to know people's impression of their quality.
>
> I can sympathize with your wish to avoid the tedium of ripping
> (especially dealing with the error-prone CDDB or FreeDB and manually
> correcting and uniformizing the tagging scheme).
>
> I think the best recommendation if you have or can acquire the disk
> space is to rip to FLAC or some other lossless format (or option within
> a format). From there you can produce a variety of compressed formats
> as needed and without the degradation of transcoding from lossy
> encodings.
I've found 320kbps is a good compromise in quality and space between the
default of 112 or 128 kbps, which sounds lousy on a proper soundsystem
(generally the only listening environment i use ATM) and lossless
compression such as flac. It's also helpful since, though I try to avoid
mp3's, I keep them around just in case.

Jeff.