On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 15:50 +0000, Mark Jordan wrote: > the article mentioned using the Ogg or Flac codecs. Is there a tool > that easily converts mp3 to these formats? Not that Fedora can ship - and since mp3 is lossy, you wouldn't want to anyway. mp3 --> flac is no loss is quality, but a very large file for something that is no better than the mp3. mp3 --> ogg will have a loss in quality. It is better re-rip to flac or ogg. I always rip to flac since it is lossless (can be converted to identical wav from whence it came) - thus I can go from flac to whatever lossy I want at any point in time w/o needing to re-rip and the quality is as good as if I had just ripped. But flac files are big. Not as big as wav, but huge compared to mp3 or ogg. For lossy - I just use mp3. Get the libmad and lame and other mp3 related stuff from rpm.livna.org
