Mass convert MP3 to Ogg

[guido dom]

Why not use "soundconverter" as advertised in "linux magazine"  pag 10
article: "do it yourself" from may 2006?
from scott at granneman.com

On 7/7/06, Mark A. Taff <marktaff at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 07 July 2006 04:44, James Gray wrote:
> > Pupeno wrote:
> > > On Friday 07 July 2006 04:46, James Gray wrote:
> > >> [2] Again, not 100% accurate.  You *can* do lossless manipulation of
> > >> JPEG's and PNG's but not lossless conversion between the two as they
> use
> > >> different compression algorithms.
> > >
> > > Isn't PNG's compression algorithm lossless ? I always thought it was.
> >
> > PNG can use either a lossless or lossy compression - it all depends on
> > how the programmer decides to implement compression.  Most
> > implementations of PNG encoding I've seen employ a lossy compression
> > algorithm as the results are "good enough" with significant benefits for
> > file size (same rationale as JPEG, and basically every other lossy
> > encoding).
> >
> > http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngintro.html
> >
> > Have a read - it's a good high-level overview of what PNG is and isn't,
> > and how it's implemented. :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James
>
> PNG *is* lossless, and the page you cited says the same thing.  Nowhere
> did it
> say that lossy compression algorithms are used.  The only place they even
> mention lossy is when taking about jpegs.
>
> If a program were to use a lossy algorithm to create a PNG, that file
> would in
> fact *not* be a PNG.
>
> Maybe you ought to reread that page yourself?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mark
>
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