Hello. I'm new to the list, and I've dutifully, like the good newbie (in this list anyway) that I am, have searched through the archives, but I can find no answer to my question. SO...is there, or can there be, a viable MP3 to OGG translator, so that those of us with gigabytes of MP3's (legalities aside) can translate them to OGGs? I don't mind ripping any NEW Cd's that I buy to OGG only, but re-ripping (and re-aquiring, let's say), the remaining ones could be a bit of a PITA. Thanks for the help. Adam --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
In an article in mailing-lists.vorbis Adam Scriven <scriven@lore.com> wrote:> Hello. I'm new to the list, and I've dutifully, like the good newbie (in > this list anyway) that I am, have searched through the archives, but I can > find no answer to my question. > > SO...is there, or can there be, a viable MP3 to OGG translator, so that > those of us with gigabytes of MP3's (legalities aside) can translate them > to OGGs?I wouldn't do that. Both MP3 and Vorbis use lossy compression, and using one type of lossy compression on top of another doesn't sound like a good idea to me... I'm ripping all my new CDs with Vorbis, but my old MP3s stays the way they are. With a suitable plugin for the player, it doesn't matter what the format is, anyway. That's my 0.02 euro... :) -- Patrik Rådman · patrik at iki dot fi · http://www.iki.fi/patrik/ "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine." -- RFC 1925 --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
At 07:45 AM 6/17/00 -0400, you wrote:>Hello. I'm new to the list, and I've dutifully, like the good newbie (in >this list anyway) that I am, have searched through the archives, but I can >find no answer to my question. > >SO...is there, or can there be, a viable MP3 to OGG translator, so that >those of us with gigabytes of MP3's (legalities aside) can translate them >to OGGs?That would depend on what you mean by 'viable', I suppose. It's easy to do, technically (in fact, there's a program to do it in CVS, if you have mpg123 as well). However, the resulting vorbis file will be: probably bigger than the mp3 file, and DEFINATELY of lower quality than that mp3 file. There is NO way around this problem - the two formats are too different, and lossily encoding a file that has already been lossily encoded is ALWAYS a bad idea. You're best off keeping your MP3 collection, and perhaps slowly re-encoding (from source material) some of them over time, and adding new stuff in vorbis format. Michael --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is needed. Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.