================================================ Subject: Re: MP3 Making Program From: "Creed - 7M3 - Live" To: Date: Mon 11 Jun 2001 23:34:17 -0400 ================================================ I think that the benifit is in the fact that the ogg format is copyright and patent free. The CODECs that they use don't have to be leased. The original reason that I asked about the ogg format originally was that the computer system that I'm running is a totally open source computer system. The only encoder that was part of the installation was a program called oggenc. The clarity of the files sounded pretty good through my mp3, wave and ogg player. So that is why I asked. By what all the good people that responded to my original technical related question that I asked about the ogg format. I guess that the sound quality is a bit higher than the mp3 format. In Linux. I'm transferring all of my CD collections to my hard drive. I got over a gig of it done and also burned volume 1 to a CD. It took a little over 600 megabytes to burn 15 CD's onto one CD. My goal is to just have to play a couple of CD's for whatever That I wanted to listen to. I got to listen to the mp3 that I made through windows. Along with the ogg files that I made through windows. Compared to the ogg files that I made in Linux. The program in Linux will look up the artist and titles of the album. then it will place the converted files into a subdirectory by artist. Then it will have a subdirectory of the album under the artists name. After that, it will make an m3u playlist of the albums and place it in the mp3 directory. So that you can load a playlist of an entire album with one selection. On the other hand. The windows freemp3 program puts every encoded file into one subdirectory. (The Desktop, by default). But it can make waves, oggs or mp3 files. So it has an advantage there. A plus is that it also looks up the songs and artists from the CDDB network database. So you don't have to type it in for each track. That is, if it isn't BHC. That one just was saved as unknown artist. track 1,2...etc. Thanks for all the help folks. Jim ----------------------------------- creedlvr@lafornara.com wrote: > So if the .ogg is the same size as mp3, where's the benefit? > > DebbiR > > -----Original Message----- > From: Creed Discussion List [mailto:CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM] On > Behalf Of Creed - 7M3 - Live > Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 8:03 PM > To: CREED-DISCUSS@WINDUPLIST.COM > Subject: MP3 Making Program > > > Thanks Lee for pointing me to that MP3 or Ogg ripping program. > > The mp3 portion of the program worked pretty good. But the ogg part > didn't make as compact of files as the command line oggenc converter or > the oggdrop program.If you are going to make ogg files. It's better to > use the free MP3 program to make waves and then drop the wave file in > the little fish with the file manager. > > The files are about 30% smaller and pretty close to what the mp3 file is > in size. > > > I tried the "Is This The End" off of the Scream 3 soundtrack. It came to > about 6 megabytes in mp3 with the freemp3 program. Over 8 megabytes > encoding them to ogg format and virtually the same size as the mp3 with > the oggdrop encoder. > > Jim -- I'm very old-fashioned. I believe that people should marry for life, like pigeons and Catholics. -- Woody Allen To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp