Re: [LUG] mp3 and ogg

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Williams wrote:

> On Saturday 29 October 2005 10:03 pm, paul sutton wrote:
>  
>
> > I am sure you can do that with Linux,. in the same way windows converts
> > into mp3 or wmf format
> >    
>
> As I said, you *can* but you are likely to be disappointed by the final 
> quality.
>
> These are lossy conversions but each method loses slightly different parts of 
> the original. Therefore converting mp3 to ogg means that some of the parts 
> lost in the mp3 conversion will not be present in the ogg as they would be 
> when you create the ogg from the original source.
>
> Apparently, the difference can be quite noticeable - especially at high volume 
> (as in a car with lots of background noise).
>  
Hmm, in that case I'll try and re-rip the CDs.  I don't have that much 
music yet.  I figured a hard drive player would allow for future music & 
video storage.

Rob


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