[Vorbis] RM to Vorbis?

[Christopher Harrington]

You may be new to this.

First off, Vorbis streams don't have an extension. They are encapsulated 
within a container format called Ogg when they are stored on disk, and 
that container format has the extension of .ogg . This is why it is 
technically incorrect for music players to label ".ogg" files as Ogg 
Vorbis, because Ogg is simply an encapsulation format, not an audio 
file. (For example, you could store JPEGs in an Ogg file, if you wanted to)

As for your first question, there are probably over a thousand. One I 
used before I ditched Windows was dbPowerAmp ( http://www.dbpoweramp.com 
) which provided reasonable to excellent quality with transcoding and 
ripping.

Something you'll see a lot on in discussions about Vorbis is the 
transcoding of MP3 into Vorbis. This is not recommended for technical 
reasons that are a little complicated, but the same rule applies to ANY 
lossy-compressed audio stream. RealMedia, MP3, AAC, WMA, and Vorbis, 
when transcoded to another of the same list, will sound *worse* almost 
100% of the time. Don't do it unless you need to. What would be best is 
re-ripping your original CDs or other media into Vorbis directly.

-Chris Harrington

Kirk Riley wrote:
> Is there a program that allows conversion of Real files (*.rm) to Ogg
> Vorbis?  (And I should know the answer to this, but what is the file
> extension of Ogg Vorbis files?)
> 
> Kirk
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