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...gg - ) CAN it be done in a lossless way? <p>As I said I don't know anything technical about Mp3 and Ogg Vorbis. I suppose that both formats contain the outcome of a cosine transform performed on the audio data, or something along those lines. Better said, they must contain a particular _clipping_ of the cosine transform, specifically computed in order to discard most information while retaining some "hearing quality". As such, the differences between mp3 and ogg vorbis can be of the followin types--and ONLY of them: - Fundamental differences in the "cosine transform" or...