MP3, Ogg and CD's

[Joshua Zeidner]

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats

On 2/18/06, John Wheat <wisdom04 at cableaz.com> wrote:
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> Alan Dayley 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.
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> 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?
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> John
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