On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:32, suse@rio.vg wrote:
Bryan S. Tyson wrote:
On Sunday 03 September 2006 07:46, Jeff Rollin wrote:
i don't know about mp3, as I use ogg
Congratulations on your good sense. By now people should be sick of being "patent hostages." I switched as soon as ogg became available, and I haven't missed mp3 whatsoever. I encourage everyone to dump mp3.
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.
Well the usual caveats about converting from one lossy format to another... I've heard it claimed that the loss is not too bad, equivelent to a bitrate drop from 126 down to the 110-120 kbps range. The conversion can be as simple as mpg321 input.mp3 -w - | oggenc -o output.ogg - Someone has a script to automate the process which would allow you to run some tests and do some side-by-side comparisons. http://linux.oldcrank.com/tips/mp3ogg/ -- _____________________________________ John Andersen