How to convert ogg files to mp3

Michael Wiktowy michael.wiktowy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 16 16:01:59 UTC 2007


On 2/14/07, Colin Charles <byte at aeon.com.my> wrote:
> You do realise that the quality might be questionable - ogg and mp3 are
> both lossy formats...

The best analogy that I have heard is that transcoding mp3s to oggs or
vice versa is like taking a photocopy of a photocopy. You can take a
lot of care to mitigate further quality loss but you cannot get back
data that was lost in the initial photocopy process and you will
always lose a bit more.

/Mike




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