mp3 Vs OGG - which program

[drspin]

Hello Hello - I just bought a new CD and I like to rip them to my computer and encode them into mp3 format... I'm hearing more and more good things about Ogg Vorbis... that it's better tan mp3 - blah blah blah - what do you guys use???

What program should I use to rip and encode my cd to OGG or MP3 files???

Cole

[l_Kriss]

Use cdparanoia, or ripperX (a frontend).

freshmeat.net should provide you with the needed url's

[bpark]

Ogg is the way to go. Try encoding something at 64kps for one song and compare them. You'll be amzed.

[bpark]

I should add, ripping to ogg is harder in Linux. What you'll use [bold]cdda2wav[/bold] to rip audio CD tracks (remember, audio CD tracks do NOT have a file type) to wav format. Once that's done, you should rip the .wav files to ogg using [bold]oggenc[/bold]. I've heard that there is a program called cdda2ogg which is a PERL script but I've never actually used it.