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

[David Tenser]

A 256k MP3 is as almost close as the original you can get. I sincerely 
doubt that many users would here any difference at all. So I think it's 
safe to say that you could feel comfortable converting those mp3s to, 
say, q5 oggs instead. At least that's what I'm doing, and I've never 
heard any difference.

/ David

Luke Usherwood wrote:
> 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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