Hi people
I intend to convert all of my mp3 collection to ogg vorbis, but I don't know which is the best method.
I've recently done a bit of testing:
1. MP3 --> FLAC (via ffmpeg) --> OGG (via oggenc).
ffmpeg original.mp3 -acodec flac test.flac
oggenc -q 6 test.flac -o test-oggenc.ogg
2. MP3 --> OGG (via ffmpeg)
ffmpeg test.mp3 -acodec libvorbis -aq 6 test-ffmpeg.ogg
Results in size:
Code:
3.8M original.mp3
3.8M test-ffmpeg.ogg
15M test.flac
3.5M test-oggenc.ogg
Just for testing a bit more, I tried another thing:
3. MP3 --> FLAC (via ffmpeg) --> OGG (via ffmpeg).
ffmpeg original.mp3 -acodec flac test.flac
ffmpeg test.flac -acodec libvorbis -aq 6 test-ffmpeg2.ogg
And the output file was 3.8 M also, apart from that I got a lot of messages saying
Multiple frames in a packet from stream 0
Multiple frames in a packet from stream 0
Multiple frames in a packet from stream 0
and at the end
flac @ 0x84b9ce0]FRAME HEADER not here
So as you can see the one that apparently works better is method 1., but I would like to know about other people's experiences regarding conversion to ogg from mp3, ffmpeg and ogg vorbis, using oggenc, etc.
Also, will mp3 tags be preserved if I use method 1? How would you improve this?
Any other suggestions will be welcome.