[plug] Prefered Music Format

[Brad Campbell]

Timothy White wrote:
> I currently have lots of CD's ripped in MP3 format (from my Windoz days)
> I converted a CD worth of MP3's to OGG and discovered that every single 
> song increased in size (20-30% increase)
> I used mp32ogg (Debian, mp32ogg=0.11-3) which gets its quality settings 
> from the mp3, the ogg's appear to have VBR's[1] varying between 100 and 
> 200 while the originals are all FBRs[2].
> 
> What should I use then? I mainly listen to the music on my computer or 
> jukebox with xmms, madplay, or mpg321. I can easily change over to ogg's 
> but is the increased file size worth it? I can't hear any quality 
> differences.

You are not going to better or even equal the quality of the mp3 by converting the mp3 to ogg. You 
will however introduce more aliasing artifacts and make it sound much, much worse.

If you are encoding from new, ogg is the way to go. Leave your mp3's as they are.


-- 
Brad
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