[svlug] Program/Script to Turn OGGs into MP3s?

[Jeffrey Siegal]

Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:37:18PM -0700, Serban Giuroiu (gyzmobro at yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know of a program or script I can use to
>>turn my OGGs into MP3s so my MP3 CD player can play them?
> 
> 
> You're better of ripping from sources.  Or modding your CD player to
> support oggs.

Yup.

> Both MP3 and Ogg are lossy audio codecs.  The loss translating from
> source to either format is relatively low.  The loss converting
> *between* formats is high.

Well, in theory, they're both doing the same thing, which is removing 
sounds that your hearing is unable to detect.  So in theory there 
*might* be some way to do a direct frequency-domain conversion with 
minimal loss.  However, I'm not aware of any such implemention.