ogg to mp3 converter?

Anyone have any software that they have tried for converting ogg to mp3 format? I know that ogg if inherently better, however my cd player doesnt support ogg.

How bout Audacity. I've used this before to convert mp3's to ogg I'm pretty certain you can turn it back to mp3 with this program. Also a nice script which I found to be pretty nifty is mp32ogg I usually turn mp3s to ogg right after download them( you know to support opensource and what not ).

a question for you. in the linux version, during ./configure, i got an error back asking about xwwindows. Is this a window manager that I am missing?

wxWindows this is an API similar to GTK and QT.

[gmoreno]

Try oggasn http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/index.html

While we are on ogg subject is there a prog like Lars that burns ogg files on the fly?

[BigFatJoe]

[quote author=Mountainman link=board=12;threadid=6201;start=0#58726 date=1043692175]
Anyone have any software that they have tried for converting ogg to mp3 format? I know that ogg if inherently better, however my cd player doesnt support ogg.
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I think the quality problem is exponentiated b/c you're going from ogg to mp3. Do you have a better source that you could use? The two formats try to decrease the file size through inherently different algorithms, and I think that because of this the end result would be pretty bad. This kind of ties in why the ogg community was so pissed about ppl constantly requesting mp3->ogg converters.

[Kernel_Killer]

Hell. Just do it with whatcha got. ;D

Open XMMS, play whatever ogg with the DiskWriter Plugin, instead of ArTs, eSound, etc. Then go to the directory that DR made your new wave files, and convert via LAME. :P

[stryder144]

[quote author=Kernel_Killer link=board=12;threadid=6201;start=0#59944 date=1045093250]
Hell. Just do it with whatcha got. ;D

Open XMMS, play whatever ogg with the DiskWriter Plugin, instead of ArTs, eSound, etc. Then go to the directory that DR made your new wave files, and convert via LAME. :P
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I was going to suggest converting the oggs to wav files then converting them to mp3. Seems to be a time consuming method, but one where the compression algorithms should come into play too much. It might, but you can never tell.

Cheers

[Kernel_Killer]

The main reason I do it, is so I have complete control of my bitrate. I can set GRIP to rip oggs/mp3s at 256, and still only get 128??? When I do with oggenc, and lame in CLI complete control is mine. Wildcards are good. ;D

[MasterC]

[quote author=gmoreno link=board=12;threadid=6201;start=0#58734 date=1043703237]
Try oggasn http://oggasm.sourceforge.net/index.html

While we are on ogg subject is there a prog like Lars that burns ogg files on the fly?
[/quote]Never used Lars, but k3b should work for converting/burning ogg's as audio files on the fly.

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