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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Garfunkle on November 15, 2002, 07:09:09 am
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Okay, so I'm tired of waiting for a portable player with @%$^ OGG support, so I'm gonna take the plunge today and buy a relatively cheap MP3 CD player.
Still, about 400 of my 2200 songs are in OGG format. My questions are thus:
How great will the quality loss be transcoding 200ish VBR oggs to say 160 ABR MP3s (compared to 160 MP3s ripped from a CD). Now there's no need to start lecturing me on the evils of transcoding, this is for a portable MP3 player.
Second question, with the new burning/playback engine, is there/will there be any way to automatically transcode my OGGs to MP3 on the fly (albeit slowly)?
Thankie,
~ Adam ~
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A few days ago I asked to iRiver what was their plan to support ogg/vorbis. They answered me they are working on it but they don't any fixed date. So that could take months still :(
PS. Keep your ogg files even you transcode them (except if you have the CD). Soon or later you will be able to use them on a handled player.
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A few days ago I asked to iRiver what was their plan to support ogg/vorbis. They answered me they are working on it but they don't any fixed date. So that could take months still :(
PS. Keep your ogg files even you transcode them (except if you have the CD). Soon or later you will be able to use them on a handled player.
I knew when I started using OGG that this would come up. Don't worry, the only transcoded MP3s will be on CD-RWs
Even if an OGG player came out tomorrow, it'd probably be out of my price range for a good long time :)
~ Adam ~