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uid(zer0): Go here: http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp . Scroll down to Audio Quality - Can I convert my MP3 collection to the Ogg Vorbis format? It says that converting from an MP3 will generally sound worse, because both formats are lossy, but at the best, will sound the same as the MP3, but never better. If you convert it directly from the source (Acturaly CD), then of course it will sound better than MP3...
I know OGG is a better codec... I've been using it for a while, about 2-3 months. Now that the encoder is optimized a bit more, I can OGG my CD's a little bit faster...
I hope this doesn't escalate any further, just needed to clear a few things up... BTW, has anybody had any luck writing a program to play .ogg files? My currently-in-development game engine really needs a way to play sounds, but I don't understand all the function calls, etc., that it wants me to go through, and my compiler is getting undefines errors in all of the sample projects, which is setting me back a lot... :(
<edit>qwerty_smith: It probably depends if you were found guilty of illegally possessing an MP3 or not... :D</edit>
-Tim_axe
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So you're making a game. Good luck.. ;)
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It's just that when you have a portable mp3 player it doesn't play *.ogg files... My Philips Expanium CD-MP3 -player claims to play *.aac (Advanced Audio Codec, or something) files but I know no program for Windows that could play those! I do have the codec anyway...
By the way, freeradiolinux, http://radioqualia.va.com.au/freeradiolinux/ , which reads the whole source code of linux as a streaming broadcast, uses Ogg Vorbis format. (Did that sentence have a lot of commas, eh?)
