From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 1 6:12:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2067437B407 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 06:12:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f91DCYN80207 ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:12:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id PAA55936 ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:12:34 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 15:12:34 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Nathan Mace Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: one last question Message-ID: <20011001151234.C53213@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010929154720.064522e9.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010929154720.064522e9.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu>; from mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 03:47:20PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > well now that i can finally rip Cd's i have one last question. the > other day i discovered ogg vorbis....i've been playing around with > it and i think i'm going to convert all of my mp3's to ogg files. mp3 would have a significant quality loss already: it would be better to convert the original source to ogg, or just leave the mp3 alone: converting mp3 to ogg will again involve a quality/filesize tradeoff. Perhaps not very significant (ogg is really very good, imo) but hardly worth the trouble, it seems to me. (Unless there are ideological reasons why you want to convert :) R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message