Kevin Waterson wrote:
I can appreciate RedHats concern with mp3's and the useOne couldn't be bundled for the same reason the xmmp-mp3 plugin wasn't. You will have to download a MP3 decoder, like mpeg123 to do it. There are some scripts on freshmeat.net that automate this for lots of files and preserve the embedded tags too.
of ogg as a default for xmms. Is there a mp3->ogg conversion tool available? if not bundled a decent
That said, they won't sound goo. ogg-vorbis removes a differen set of information than mp3. Imaging mp3 removing the lowest bit in every byte, and vorbis removing the high bit in every byte. If you go from mp3 to vorbis, you han lost both bits now.
Original = abcdefgh
mp3 = bcdefgh
vorbis = abcdefg
mp3->vorbis = bcdefg
You best bet is to re-encode from the original source.
-Thomas
