> r u serious? ogg actually compresses better than mp3? And it's also > free? r u serious? I mean I'm totally new to this ogg stuff. And what do
Sure. Many people are saying that. I haven't done many tests to determine this for myself. For one test: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3394855 Aug 17 10:50 /tmp/18.Larger Than Life.ogg -rw-r--r-- 1 dfox users 42693164 Aug 15 23:19 /tmp/18.Larger Than Life.wav -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4717988 Aug 17 10:53 /tmp/18.Larger Than Life.wav.mp3 (from a lingering kiss alive ii wav) The ogg was encoded 'oggenc -q3 <wavfile>; the mp3 was encoded <lame --preset hifi <wavfile>. Now that's probably an unfair test since the kbps rate is seemingly lower with -q3 in ogg. And both are variable bit rate encodings. preset hifi is supposedly 160kbps. mpg123 reports the mp3 as 128kbps joint-stereo. You can see for yourself that the ogg is significantly smaller than the mp3. :) > you convert with? Rezound? Or is there some batch conversion tool/script. ogg123, oggenc etc. They should be on your distro CDs. Lyvim (whom i had a long conversation with yesterday morning) says that one can convert between the two using 'sox'. This works, and doesn't seem to take up any intervening disk space. Otherwise, I'd use a filter in a shell script. sox of course can be this filter ala: for i in *.mp3 do sox $i $i.ogg done needs some cleanup etc., and you'll probably end up with filenames ending in .mp3.ogg :) One thing - it doesn't seem that one can pass conversion specifics, like -q3 or bit rate etc. this way to the vorbis encoder. Sox uses a vorbis library only, it's a different front end than oggenc. You may need to use oggenc directly, or pipe the input from sox into oggenc (can that read from stdin? it should be able to) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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