[vorbis] Best quality setting for mp3 transcoded old radio shows

[Mark Hetherington]

Perhaps you'd be better off re-ripping some cds you have into ogg, or ogging 
some other new material from it's source so you have some nice high quality 
oggs with good content..... Especially if your reasons are religious.... I've 
been converting all my wav samples to oggs. Re-ripping the cds I have in mp3, 
and encoding to ogg (much nicer to listen to as well).

MArk

On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 12:19, Steve Bergman wrote:
> engdev wrote:
> >Since vorbis only has support for 44KHz (currently), but MP3 has
> >support all the way down to 8KHz, it is very likely that at the low
> >bit rates you are talking about, that the MP3 files have a
> >low sample rate.
> >Re-encoding to OGG would require upsampling (probably done
> >within MP32OGG) and the resulting re-code would not sound
> >as good or reach the same file size. Probably. Suck it and see!
>
> Thanks.  Yes, I should have included the info that these are encoded at
> 22050.
>
> Geoff suggested that it may not be worth the bother.  And I agree on a
> certain level.  However, I was distresed to see the low visibility of
> OGG on Gnutella.  I feel better making my stuff available only in OGG.
>  However, I don't want to contribute to giving OGG a bad reputation
> (either for quality, or for file size). This is compounded by the fact
> that the result can't be any higher  quality than the original mp3's.
>  Basically, my reasons are 'religious' in nature.  But I don't want to
> disgrace the church, if you know what I mean.
>
> Steve

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