[OT]Software patents end? ??:) light at the end of tunnel

Atilla Filiz atilla.filiz at gmail.com
Thu Nov 27 00:08:51 CET 2008


mp3 is also a lossy format. so other formats are not lower quality. The
thing is, converting from one format to another is also a lossy operation
itself. So if you convert an ogg music to mp3, you may also end up with
slightly worse file.

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Dylan Semler <dylan.semler at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Dale Maggee <antisol at internode.on.net>wrote:
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>> On this note, can anybody point me to a piece of software which will
>> mass-convert all my mp3s to ogg at the press of a button? It would need
>> to preserve all my ID3 Tags etc. We're talking thousands of files /
>> gigabytes of data here...
>>
>
> Be aware though, that due to the lossy nature of these formats, no matter
> what encoding settings you choose, this will always result in lower quality
> music than your mp3s.
>
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