MP3s and Linux [ogg format]
Dave Cross
dave at dave.org.uk
Tue Apr 6 06:53:51 UTC 2004
On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:32:31PM +1000, Daniel Stonier wrote:
>
> It could be that the script identifies all the information in an mp3
> file and just translates that just as you might translate a book. If
> it does this there'd be next to no degradation at all.
But that's not what the script does. It plays the mp3 file and
stores the output as a wav file. It then re-encodes that wav file
into an ogg file.
This is a terrible idea. The mp3 file is a lossy representation of
the original sound and when you re-encode it to ogg you're just
adding to the loss.
Dave...
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