[vorbis] Transcoding (Was: MP3 to OGG conversion)

[Luke Usherwood]

This discussions leads me to a question I wanted to ask.

Sure, for advocating the quality of OGG, it's best not to convert MP3 -> Ogg.  However, what about simply for reducing storage space?  I have a lot of 256kbps MP3s.  If I transcode these using something like -q 4.99 which was recommended to me earlier, I'm still going to get files 30% smaller or so.  Note that I have recently moved to the other side of the world leaving my CDs back in New Zealand (a harddrive was much smaller!)

Anyone else had experience with this?  Even with these relatively high quality levels, will the artefacts be noticable?

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