[plug] Ripping to MP3

[Craig Ringer]

Jeff Williams wrote:

> What encoder are you using? The fastest I used was gogo for mp3's, but 
> now I use oggenc. Ogg Vorbis - better quality and no patent issues - 
> all good. 

I recently ripped a CD for one of my housemates, all windows users w/o 
any ripping software. I did it under the guest user account on my 
machine to avoid messing with my own auto-filed mp3+ogg collection. 
Apparently the latest debian version of grip defaults to ogg . I didn't 
notice when I ripped the tracks except to think "wow that encoded fast" 
but I've just got a new system so I didn't think much of it. Used 
smbclient to dump them on Patrick's machine and off he went - then, 
after playing some, noticed that they weren't mp3s  - the system already 
supported oggs. I found it quite amusing, esp since he commented on the 
good quality :-)