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

[Steve Bergman]

Thanks, Geoff.  I have found that "-q 2" produces ogg's of good quality 
on these files, with a slightly larger size.  However, I still value the 
input of others as I'm fairly new to ogg encoding.  I am not really 
looking for file size reduction.  I go into more detail in my previous 
(2nd) post to the list.

Thanks Again,
Steve

Geoff Shang wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Well, MP3 files encoded that low are going to have some pretty serious
>artifacts.  I've found that anything below -q 2 at rates other than
>44.1khz
>tend to produce significant pre-echo, though the original MP3 probably has
>some of that too.  Honestly, you won't get a lot of improvement on file
>size, if any, by transcoding that stuff.  I probably wouldn't bother if I
>were you.  But if you're going to bother, encode and listen.
>
>Geoff.
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