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It can output to mp3 (You can select Bitrate and Encoder), WAV, WMA, and RealAudio, although I doubt ANYONE would use those last two. Let me know when you downloaded it, so I can give you the serial. The program is like 5 and a half MBs unpacked, so downloading it should be quick.

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Well I made a journal entry but since no one responded, I guess I'll ask here:

If I have an mp3 file, what's the ideal bitrate for an .ogg conversion?

96kbps, 128kbps, something else? Thanks if you know.

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Originally Posted by LiquidAcid

Never transcode lossy -> lossy

Ok yeah, but that doesn't answer my question. I need to convert some .mp3 files to .ogg and I want to know the appropriate bitrate to do so at.

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Ask Rimo or Killy eh? Alright.

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Alright, I guess I should have provided more info, but I didn't think it mattered:

I have some sound effects files and also music files. I'm using them for a project of mine, but for reasons I'd rather not get into, I cannot use .mp3 right now. I have the option of MIDI, Ogg Vorbis, WAV.... or .wma (Which I do not deal with at all just out of principle). While I would go with WAV, the file-size will likely be prohibitively large for the music files at least. Plus, .ogg files in my experience tend to sound well even at lower bitrates, but we come back to my original question: What is the average bitrate that would be most appropriate? As you just said above, the reason is perceived audio quality.

The files were orignally .mp3 and I don't think I can find an uncompressed source.

However a second sub-question arises: Should I be able to find lossless versions of said files, what is the best file-type to, again, convert to .wav or .ogg? FLAC? APE? WAV (CD Audio)?

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Alright, that helped me out more, thanks Liquid and Rimo. I'll do a few experiments and see what works best.

As for my second question. The source files were mp3, however, if I were to come across a lossless audio file and I wanted to convert it, which lossless format would be best to convert to .ogg or .wav? If there is no "best" format for lossless, then nevermind

Hope that is more understandable.

I was speaking idiomatically.