On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 08:17:05 +1200 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wouldn't this be accumulating losses exponentially? > Like 5% loss in original mp3. Convert to wav then 5% loss from wav to ogg = > total loss of 25%. Of course i may be blowing smoke. It depends how you look at it.... I do it all the time actually... I download mp3's of 192kb/s minimum, and reconvert them to quality 4 ogg format. Honestly, I hear no difference at all, and save about 1/2 the disk-space doing it ;-) Oooh, Ahh, I hear it already, "yes but have you really listened to it" .. the answer is yes. I have an expensive headset with great qualiry sound, and my computer is also hooked up to our sterio, and neither of them are bad-sounding at all in any way. The few cases I have noticed where the audio was bad, was simply due to a crap mp3 encoder, and even though those files were 192, they sucked themselves, and of course if the origional sucks, then the converted will too. I wrote a script to convert mp3's to ogg's, and would be more than willing to send it to anyone asking for it. Greetings Ralph -- http://axljab.homelinux.org:8080/ "...the software said Win95 or better, so I installed Linux"
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