[vorbis-dev] thoughts about MP3 -> OGG convertor

[Gian-Carlo Pascutto]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, John Zitterkopf wrote:

> I always knew there would be issues with MP3 <-> OGG due to the different
> compression schemes. Are these "artifacts" very noticable in the playback?

Yes. I did a listening test some time ago in a 'worse-case'
listening environment and posted the results here. You can look it up
via the archives.

The loss from the MP3->Ogg conversion was still very noticeable.

Perhaps newer Vorbis encoders will do better, but I wouldn't
count on it.


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