On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 10:41 +0530, Ritesh Sinha wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Narendra Diwate > <narendra.diw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a thought. > > I have about 35GB of Music, mostly in mp3 @128kbps or VBR. If I were to > > covert this into ogg at the same rate/resolution, would it make it any > > difference to the size/space. > > I doubt it would make a huge difference (perhaps ~10-15% saved space). > Also remember that converting from a lossy to another lossy format > will cause you to lose a bit of quality. But it's best that you tried > it for, say, a small batch of music files first and test for space > saved and quality change. <snip>
Like Ritesh said, converting lossy-->lossy will result in loss of quality, sorry for the alliteration. I would recommend you keep the mp3s as is and try to acquire any further music in FLAC or Vorbis, unless you are running short of disk space or something. That is my opinion, because I prefer keeping quality constant, instead of trying to convert just so you can have an all free-codec music collection, which I agree is a noble thought which I went through too and just settled for the pragmatic option I recommended above. Regards, Easwar -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
