How to convert ogg files to mp3

[Ian Malone]

On 16/02/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16/02/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > On 14/02/07, Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:

> > >>
> > >> My wife cannot notice the difference, even with good headphones on and I
> > >> cringe at most mp3 music.  My biggest problem is "Stairway to Heaven"  I
> > >> have yet to get a good ogg or mp3 version of this song.  Same with many
> > >> live recordings.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yes, Stairway and the Battle of Evermore I had to rerip at 320 bps to
> > > get rid of an echo in both songs. The rest of my collection is 256,
> > > with a few exceptions. I don't really like live recordings, so I
> > > haven't tried those.
> > >
> >
> > The versions from Symbols?  Do you remember what time/part it was at?
>
> There are other versions? I've only got the 320 on hand right now, but
> I can rerip the disc at 128/256 if you want. Listening to Stairway at
> 320, I think that I remember the echo at about 7:20 or so in the
> cymbals.
>

Thanks.  (Others; BBC Sessions, a couple from the DVD, various bootlegs
they're all live though, but I wanted to check.  Actually I quite like the sound
on the BBC sessions version.)

>
> I'd actually like to note that my music collection is in mp3 as I feel
> it's slightly better sounding than ogg. I don't remember what turned
> me off about ogg, but I decided not to use it. I only mention it
> because someone mentioned earlier in the thread that ogg sounds
> better. My music tastes usually include heavy guitar and drums, with
> not a small bit of electronic peices: Led Zepplin, Machina (Israeli
> rock), Pantera, Sepultura, Nine Inch Nails, Rammstien, Ministry.
> Appears that guitar doesn't compress so well in ogg. That was about
> 2002-ish, while Windows was still installed on this machine. Might I
> see better results ripping ogg with a newer Linux program?
>

There has been at least one improvement in encoding since then.
<https://trac.xiph.org/browser/trunk/vorbis/CHANGES>
Also the recent aoTuV tunings are supposed to be a big
improvement, though I don't know if you can get an aoTuV based
encoder as an rpm <http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=AoTuV>.
Not worth worrying about too much if you're using FLAC anyway.

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imalone