Best software to convert MP3 to WMA & OGG format?

[Diz2K2]

Looking to add some audio to a website in a number of different formats. Had some cassetter tapes that I recorded to MP3. Now I would like the audio in WMA & OGG format also.

 

[Thyme]

You would be much better served by re-encoding from the source into the different formats as transcoding from lossless to lossless, once again, reduces your audio quality. Since almost everyone who can play WMA or OGG can also play MP3, the only advantage to multiple sources would be if people prefered the quality of one over the other and that wouldn't be true for things that are transcoded.

 

[Diz2K2]

Thanks for the reply. The program I use doesn't give me an option for WMA or OGG. Is there a recording program capable to encoding to these formats? I wanted to just have a few format options.

 

[Thyme]

Can you capture it as raw audio (wav)?

 

[Diz2K2]

Yes, I do have that capability.

 

[luckysnafu]

Jetaudio will let you take a cd and rip it to ogg, wma, flac and some others. www.jetaudio.com

 

[Algere]

dBpowerAMP

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: luckysnafu
Jetaudio will let you take a cd and rip it to ogg, wma, flac and some others. www.jetaudio.com

It's on cassette.

Extract it as a wav, and then I believe you can use CDEX as a frontend for ogg, but I don't know about wma. XP might have something installed by default that will let you go from wav to wma, but I'm not sure.

 

[Pirotech]

Check it:
http://www.mp3towma.com/
http://www.alivemedia.net/mp3wav.htm
http://www.mp3do.com/mp3converter.html

 

[Diz2K2]

Originally posted by: Pirotech
Check it:
http://www.mp3towma.com/
http://www.alivemedia.net/mp3wav.htm
http://www.mp3do.com/mp3converter.html

Thanks, do you have any experience with these?

 

[Diz2K2]

Originally posted by: Algere
dBpowerAMP

I have this installed. I'll play with this too, thanks.

 

[Thyme]

Originally posted by: Pirotech
Check it:
http://www.mp3towma.com/
http://www.alivemedia.net/mp3wav.htm
http://www.mp3do.com/mp3converter.html

You will lose quality and you will gain nothing from offering multiple formats except that people will get lower quality after downloading what they think will be higher quality.

 

[Diz2K2]

Thyme,
I understand what you mean. So using the original Wav format would be a better way to go to convert to mp3, wma & ogg? Now is there a wav converter that can do all those formats?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: Diz2K2
Thyme,
I understand what you mean. So using the original Wav format would be a better way to go to convert to mp3, wma & ogg? Now is there a wav converter that can do all those formats?

dbPowerAmp, just add the right plugins from their website.

After 30 days you need to pay them $14 to keep using MP3, because the Fraunhofer stormlawyers make them pay patent license fees.

 

[Thyme]

Well, when you record something, you first record exactly what is "heard." That raw audio can be stored in the wav format. Then, it's not really converted, but encoded into a lossy codec like mp3 or ogg which loses a lot of the original audio information. When you "convert" from one lossless codec to another, e.g. mp3 to ogg, you're not converting it like you'd convert decimal to hex--you're actually re-incoding. First, it's going to decode it back into raw audio. This raw audio is exactly what you "hear" from the mp3. Then it reincodes it, losing more audio information.

So, what you're really not looking for is a wav->ogg converter; what you're looking for is an ogg encoder and a wma encoder. You don't need much fancy to do that. CDEX is a ripping tool and an encoder frontend that I know will do ogg from wav files easily. I've never encoded in wma (I hate it--personal preference), so I don't know what will do that, but there might be an encoder that comes with Windows XP.

 

[Diz2K2]

Thanks for the detailed description. It cleared up alot. I have cdex also so I will attempt to use that for ogg.

 

[xtknight]

Windows Media Encoder for wma and VorbisTools for ogg.