Hi, On Sunday 03 September 2006 23:32, suse@rio.vg wrote:
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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. Randall Schulz