Re: [Advocate Play Ogg] Two thoughts: automated conversion, and radio4all.net.

[Pandu E Poluan]

Transcoding from one lossy format onto another will always degrade quality. See http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Transcoding for a description and illustration.

Assuming that the original MP3 is good (e.g. encoded using LAME), transcoding to a similar bitrate or slightly-lower bitrate should not degrade too much; that's my experience transcoding from 128 kbps MP3's to ~128 kbps (approx) Ogg Vorbis, or even to ~96 kbps (approx) Ogg Vorbis.

Problem is if you have a sucky MP3, transcode to a too-low Ogg Vorbis... then people will complain that Ogg Vorbis destroys their song.

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On 5/29/07, Karl Fogel <address@hidden> wrote:

   An automated converter (for both MP3 and WAV) would make things a
   lot easier for people.  I understand there may be some technical
   difficulty going from MP3 to Ogg Vorbis without compromising
   quality, but don't know how severe that problem is -- is it a
   showstopper?

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