Converting .ogg to .mp3

[NinoGrounds]

Is there an program for that, but that it doesn't reduces the clip quality (or at least not too much because the song is already coded at 85 kbs).

Doing it with Audacity or some similar software will reduce the quality, alot, I think.

[Khuskan]

Soundforge and audacity shouldn't lower the quality at all. Quality is set when you save, so save it first to a .wav at 44.1khz, then convert the .wav to an mp3.

OGG's are essentialy glorified MP3's anyway

[pitbulljones]

converting an ogg to wav then to mp3 would affect the quality of the tune, due to changing through various formats, sample fragments are lost through each process, the best way wud be to directly convert it from ogg to mp3. didn't anyone ever teach you khuskan about samples and conversion etc etc?( : ) )

when you're making music you want it at the highest possible bitdepth and bitrate until the last moment, this is so it retains as much sonic purity as possible, every time we do a process or add a plugin to a sound and it's bounced we lose a tiny fragment of the quality, the more you do this the more noticeable it becomes. thats why they also say to record at 24bit 96khz, if thats aviable to you, then dither down to 16bit 44.1khz, cd quality. ( ; ) ) ( : ) )

[JonH2O]

At 4/11/06 03:18 PM, pitters wrote:
when you're making music you want it at the highest possible bitdepth and bitrate until the last moment, this is so it retains as much sonic purity as possible, every time we do a process or add a plugin to a sound and it's bounced we lose a tiny fragment of the quality, the more you do this the more noticeable it becomes. thats why they also say to record at 24bit 96khz, if thats aviable to you, then dither down to 16bit 44.1khz, cd quality.

Who's they? Nobody I know of would take a 24bit 96khz file and dither down to 16 bit 44.1..That's bad. If you had a 96khz file you would probably want to dither down to 48khz....you would only want to record at 96khz for video...Audio formats and video formats are different..Like, if you were tracking for film that is what you would use to conform to video format.

The reason you don't want to dither down from 96 to 44.1 is because it's not an even amount, and what ends up happening is every couple other bit of information is dropped, and comes out in thirds and weird....stuff. If you had a 96khz sample, you would want to dither down to 48.

Audio Cd's are 16-bit 44.1 khz...an up from that would be 24-bit, 88.2khz...nice and doubled. =)

At 4/11/06 02:52 PM, Nino_JoJ wrote: Is there an program for that, but that it doesn't reduces the clip quality (or at least not too much because the song is already coded at 85 kbs).

Doing it with Audacity or some similar software will reduce the quality, alot, I think.

What you're doing when you convert from ogg to mp3 is converting an already compressed audio file into yet another compression format..You will loose quality. Try and get ahold of the original PCM Uncompressed wav/aif file if possible...If not...Just search for "ogg to mp3 converter" and that's probably about the best you can get. SOundforge and various other programs will do probably just as gooda job.

Also, I believe that ogg is a better codec (codec?) than mp3. An 85 kbps ogg file is better quality than an 85 kbps mp3 file.

Let me know if you have any other questions. I don't know a whole lot about conversion, but I can talk more about sample rates, bit depth and other shit.