[vorbis] OGG --> MP3 conversion app?

[Chris]

I'm not burning them to a audio (redbook?) cd, i'm burning them to a 
regular data CD that my discman plays by reading the MP3s off of the 
disk. there is no other option for me except to reencode to MP3.

gtgbr at gmx.net wrote:

>Chris wrote:
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>>I know, thou just how bad is it? if your starting with a file that upon
>>playback sounds exactly like the CD will not a reencoded version at a
>>similar quality sound nearly the same?
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>There are always differences between the original and the encoded
>version. So if you re-encode, the encoder tries hard to keep those
>differences in its output (because it thinks they belong to the original
>- no encoder can guess what prior encoders threw away or discern between
>music and artifacts). While wasting bits on reproducing the already
>encoded audio's differences, it will spend less bits on the actual music
>and add its own 'faults', too. That's not only a waste of time and
>space, the quality will be noticeable degraded (if not for your ears on
>the first re-encoding run, for others it'll be noticeable).
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>>And thats exactly the reason i'm doing it, unfortunaly i only have a
>>sony MP3 discman that doesn't play ogg and i have everything on my
>>computer in ogg,  so rather then have everything encoded as OGG and MP3
>>at the same time, i'd rather just covert what i want for my player, burn
>>to CD and then delete the mp3. And the oggs are a nice and high quality
>>(6) so the quality should be fine.
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>You don't have to, and should not re-encode the .ogg files to MP3 in
>order to burn them to CD. Just decode them to .wav and then burn those
>.wav files. With time, when more nice and useful burning applications
>support burning .ogg directly, this step isn't necessary any more. By
>re-encoding to MP3 just in order to burn CDs, you're shooting yourself
>in the foot.
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>If you have MP3s that you can't re-rip from CD, in order to encode them
>to Vorbis, just leave 'em be. Having a Vorbis-only music collection
>might be nice, but what use are those .ogg files if they don't sound
>better than MP3 (maybe even worse!)? You'd really have to be a die-hard
>proprietary-software-hater to make this re-encoding to Ogg "reasonable".
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>Moritz
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