MP3, Ogg and CD's

[John Wheat]

Alan Dayley wrote:
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> John Wheat wrote:
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>>  I have noticed that MP3 support is rather limited with linux,
>>therefore, would Ogg be a suitable alternative considering I like to
>>burn CD's of mixed songs in my collection. The format used would need to
>>be easily converted to Wav so they can be burned to CDr's any
>>suggestions on this?
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> I am confused when you say that "MP3 support is rather limited with
> linux"  I currently have no less than 5 (maybe more) different audio
> players on my Fedora system that can play MP3s.  The legality of the
> software that encodes and decodes MP3 may be up for debate but support
> for the format is not limited.
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> Ogg is a suitable alternative which I would use more, if I had a
> portable player that supported.  Players that support Ogg are few and
> far between.  I have an iPod Nano (provided as a gift) but do not use
> the Apple ACC format since I don't and won't use iTunes.  My only other
> iPod supported choice is MP3.  So, I rip my CDs to MP3.
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> As mentioned by others, both MP3 and Ogg are "lossy" formats so you
> loose some of the music in either one.  I have heard of people who rip
> to their hard drive as WAV or FLAC and then convert to MP3 just for use
> on their portable player.  It's a good idea but I figure the CDs are my
> full quality original.  If I only rip them to the computer and never use
> them on a daily basis, they will stay pristine "forever" anyway.  If I
> need a song in a lossless format, I'll get it off the CD.

What I meant by "limited" is , at least on Ubuntu stock setup for lack 
of a better term I have not found much in the way of MP3 to wav 
convertors. Maybe I am not looking in the right place?

John