[vorbis] MP3 to OGG conversion

Robert Cole robert at support4linux.com
Wed Jun 26 10:17:55 PDT 2002


:) Well I might experiment some but at least I really haven't put much
time into ripping my CD's, yet. I will soon rip them all to ogg so I can
mix and match CD's anytime I want. :)

On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 09:42, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 01:52:34AM +0200, Moritz Grimm wrote:
> > Just a little addition to the other answers, or why no tool can do this
> > without letting the result sound like "ass", like Monty pointed out. :)
> 
> While I can't disagree with the fact that both formats use different
> lossy methods to achieve compression, the real reason why there aren't
> tools doing direct mp3->ogg conversion is because it's really easy to
> make your favourite mp3 software output wav files, which can be converted
> to anything else.
> 
> Also, while most people on this list seem to be worried about bragging
> how high they have to set the ogg quality setting to compress their music
> in order to avoid hearing the obvious and horrible artifacts, I'm here
> to remind you that many other people don't give a damn about quality,
> or worse (like in my case) can't give a damn about it because nature
> has not gifted them.
> 
> Robert, go ahead, I've converted mp3 from 192Kbit to ogg 128kbit and
> they sound perfect. In fact, all the mono 64Kbit mp3 I've ripped so far
> sound exactly as the original audio cds.
> 
> PD: Don't worry people, I won't share my horrible oggs over the net.
> 
> -- 
>  Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz   gradha at terra.es   http://gradha.infierno.org/
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