Re: [PLUG] .ogg to .mp3 or .aac

[Shameel Arafin <algebraist@gmail.com>]

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I don't think it matters what intermediate steps you take, ultimately
ending up with an mp3 will degrade your ogg -- what matters is the
sampling rate (192kbps etc) at which the mp3 is encoded.

ogg -> wav -> mp3 is probably what you have to do, using oggenc+lame.

S/

Art Alexion wrote:

> I have some music that I have saved in .ogg format that I would
> like to use on an iPod. It only plays .mp3 and .aac compressed
> formats. I would like to convert to one of these formats with as
> little loss as possible. I know I can use oggenc to decode to .wav
> and then lame to encode as .mp3, but I expect that that would
> degrade the sound significantly.
>
> I have access to a samba linked machine running iTunes (I usually
> use amaroK), and I understand that iTunes will encode to aac on the
> fly without affecting the original file, but iTunes doesn't seem to
> accept ogg files either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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