Ogg to mp3

[The General]

I'm using besweet/belight, and everytime i try to convert a ogg file to mp3, the program crashes. So i'm looking for something else, freeware of course.

Thanks

[Hiei-YYH]

try dbpoweramp, it only needs registration to convert to mp3. (codecs may be necessary)
anyway, ogg is a lot better than mp3.

[MiretanK]

Foobar2000 with LAME encoder. Best EVAR, what I use.

[mudlord]

ogg is a lot better than mp3.

Any hard evidence to prove so?

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

Super 2007 is an awesome universal encoder.

SUPER © .

[Hard core Rikki]

Originally Posted by mudlord

Any hard evidence to prove so?

HydrogenAudio and Doom9 look credible

in all justice:
OGG: marginally better, more noticeably in q-based modes. less widespread hardware/software support => smaller adoption
MP3: works so no reason to change as long as noone uses the ISO implementations


SUPER is just a dumbified frontend for other encoders. If besweet/belight fail, just redownload the latest betas for each of them in the same folder (again) and retry.

GX Transcoder is nice too, as well as MediaCoder (latter is my personal preference after Besweet/BeLight, other than that, manual stuff and total conversion control ftw )

[SCHUMI-4-EVA]

o well SUPER still is pretty super, I have not come across better freeware than it when it comes to just plain encoding into another format without any whistles and bells.

There are better ones, but they are all specific, ther are none which are as universal as it is.

[Cid Highwind]

Originally Posted by mudlord

Any hard evidence to prove so?

They say that it gives better quality at the same bitrate. Then again, who here would encode their music at bitrates where they'd hear the difference between MP3/OGG and CD Audio? So compatibility is my main reason for sticking with MP3