Re: How to convert ogg files to mp3

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On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:32 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I'd actually like to note that my music collection is in mp3 as I feel
> it's slightly better sounding than ogg.

Interesting, as you're the first person I've seen state things that way
around.  What bit rates do you encode things at?

For my own purposes, I've always found ogg to sound better than MP3,
even when the MP3s were encoded at higher bit rates than the oggs.  I
find strange squeaks, swooshing noises, wierd distortions in the bass,
phase errors that sound like a cross between bad shortwave radio
reception and playing a chewed compact audio cassette in most MP3s.

Granted that some encoders are better than others, but I've not being
able to find a good MP3 one (Windows or Linux).  Seeing as the only
non-computer devices around here that can play MP3s are my DVD players,
I've never really bothered about improving it.  I'll drag out the
original CDs and play them.  Or use one of the PCs as an ogg jukebox.

My music tastes are varied, everything from classical, to jazz, to
abstract, to 50's and 60's pop, but very little modern pop.  I haven't
found any particular type of music to be better or worse on one of the
other encoding format.  Even on cheap audio gear the deficiencies in
most MP3s are noticable, and on moderately expensive audio gear oggs
sound very close to the originals, and that's at the standard 128kbs
rate.  Comparatively speaking, MP3s need encoding well above 256kbs to
get close.

You mentioned guitars being a problem, I've listed to accoustic guitars
played normally, and electric with heavy fuzz, I can't say that either
has a problem with oggs, though anything with heavy distortion will need
a high sampling rate to decently cover the higher harmonic frequences
produced by clipping at the original source (heavy distortion, or
square-waving of the guitar, means you need to record the odd harmonics
above the fundamental note to quite some degree, unless you deliberately
want a mellow sound).

The only problem I've noticed with ogg is (sometime) audio clipping on
playback if I've turned the player volume up high on the PC.  For some
strange reasons MP3s don't do that.  Even when they've apparently got
the same volume levels in the files.  I was beginning to wonder if some
audio players don't just play with the audio mixer, but do some bad
number crunching on the digital audio.

I'm not a rich audiophile, just an audiophile.  I work in audio/video
production, I play musical instruments, I have moderately priced HiFi
gear (gear that has some reasonable claim to the moniker, with things
like 0.0001% THD, etc., not the 1% distortion that some just ordinary
stereo gear has, and a reasonably nice set of Wharfedale bookshelf
speakers), and I still have reel-to-reel gear (Revox A77).  ;-)
Distortions and other noises are still annoyingly obvious, even if my
ears do have a brick wall filter at 16kHz.




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