On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:41:17 +0000, Ian Malone <ibm21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The problem comes when you take something that was compressed with one lossy > > algorithm, and convert it to a totally different one. Odds are good you'll > > end up with the worst effects of both. > > Further info at <http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp#lossy>. The original > question of converting is dealt with also --- three questions further > down. When I got my iPod, I was faced with a bit of a quandry: I've ripped over 200 CDs into OGG format, and really didn't want to re-rip them all to MP3. I tried converting them from OGG to MP3 and by and large was pleased with the results (at least for listening on a portable device like the iPod). Going from MP3 to OGG produced noticably worse results, but I think if I had been working with MP3s with a sufficiently high bit rate I'd have been OK. So, in theory, you're going to lose quality -- in practice, depending on how you plan to listen to the resultant files, you might not notice a big difference. I wouldn't recommend re-encoding from MP3 to OGG, though. Since I got the iPod, I've been ripping to FLAC then transcoding those to MP3 and OGG. I get much better results doing that. -- Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves
