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[Garfunkle]

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 ~

[michel]

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.

[Garfunkle]

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 ~