OGG to MP3

Orion

Khannie's going to hate me for this one but what the hell

I've a load of ogg files that I want to convert to MP3 without losing quality. Is there an easy way to do this or should I just rip them again?

Before I get banned for this I must explain - I got me a Zen Touch which doesn't support .ogg If anyone knows how to persuade the Zen to play ogg files I'd be most interested.

snappieT

I use 'Advanced MP3 Converter'. It's not free, but I think you get 30 days...

unklerosco

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

There's nothing wrong with converting ur ripped cds from ogg to mp3...

Mutant_Fruit

Everytime you convert a lossy format to another lossy format, you lose a bit of quality regardless of what bitrate you choose for the new format.

I'll definately second DBPoweramp as the converter of choice, it does everything you'd need, quickly and easily.

Just for a rough rule of thumb. 96kbps ogg -> 160kbps mp3, 128kbps ogg -> 192kbps mp3. Those qualities are roughly on par with each other, so trying to convert a 96kbps ogg to above 160kbps mp3 is a waste of time (in my opinion anyway).

I'd say your grand just converting from the oggs, don't bother reripping directly to mp3. You'd only do that if you were archiving your music on your computer, and wanted the best quality you could get.

Orion

Thanks - I'll give that a go. As you said Mutant it's not for archiving it's for listening to on the zen so a conversion to anything over 128 will do grand.

Khannie

oggdrop will convert them to wav files (just drag the ogg files into the window and presto) then you could use lame to reencode them. You will lose tag info this way though.

Orion

Just used dbPowerAmp - works a treat - thanks.