How to convert ogg files to mp3

Gérard Milmeister gemi at bluewin.ch
Wed Feb 14 13:16:56 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:26 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 14/02/07, Colin Charles <byte at aeon.com.my> wrote:
> > Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > > Anyone know how to convert ogg files to mp3 in FC5 ?
> > >
> >
> > This seems to be a good guide:
> >        http://www.igso.net/nkb/Converting_ogg_to_mp3_in_Linux
> >
> > You'll need the livna repository enabled to get the MP3 stuff going
> >
> > You do realise that the quality might be questionable - ogg and mp3 are
> > both lossy formats...
> 
> The quality won't be questionable- it will be terrible.
I did not try it, but there is no reason that the quality will be
terrible. There will be some reduction in quality, but it is certainly
not the case, that each conversion will reduce the quality by a constant
factor.
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