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OGG's won't appear on my Sansa e260

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Vortex:

--- Quote ---Transcoding is definitely a no no- your music will sound like ass. Alway rerip and reencode from a lossless sources.
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I also transcoded all of my songs for my Sansa (I kept the originals of course). The source files were mostly mp3 at 320kbit/s, I encoded them all to Vorbis at quality 4 (~128kbit/s).

I can hear no difference whatsoever. The file size, however, was cut half. I think this is definitely worth the (not noticeable) quality loss from the transcoding.

cpchan:

--- Quote from: Vortex on May 30, 2007, 04:39:28 AM ---The source files were mostly mp3 at 320kbit/s, I encoded them all to Vorbis at quality 4 (~128kbit/s).
--- End quote ---

Wow 320kbps, you might as well just use FLAC. Transcoding from a 320kbps LAME encoded MP3 to -q 4 using the AoTuV branch of oggenc should probably be OK. However, the OP downloaded most of the files from the Internet, so they are most likely badly encoded 128kbps-192kbps MP3's.  In the end of the day, it all depends on whether it is transparent to you and how fussy you are that it is close to the pristine source. Here are some general guide lines:

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Transcoding

Charles

Sinosec:
Yeah, I didn't mention that, yes, they do sound a bit like ass through my amp right here. But they're OK in the car with the horrible system it has anyway.

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