[vorbis] Best quality setting for mp3 transcoded old radio shows

[Steve Bergman]

Hi,

I have a bunch of old radio programs (mystery/drama shows, not music) 
encoded at 32 kbit (and some 48kbit)  mp3 (mono).  I want to reencode 
them in ogg and make them available over gnutella.

My question is this.  What is the best quality level (-q) for 
transcoding them.  I want to preserve quality, but I want to be 
sensitive to the many modem based gnutella users.  I also want to to 
help introduce people to ogg in a positive way.  i.e. I want the best 
balance of size to quality for this use.  I am using mp32ogg, which by 
default uses quality 5 for these files which seems like overkill.  (It 
also adds a tag to identify the file as a transcoded mp3 to help 
preserve vorbis' reputation for quality.)

Thanks for any advice.

-Steve Bergman
steve at rueb.com

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