best audio/sound converter

[Graham Watkins]

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 08:53 -0700, Chris Lemire wrote:
> oggenc is the best and recommended and will give you good quality. use
> it rather than lame. if you want a front-end gui to that, use grip.
> its very good. cdparanoia rips tracks from audio cds very well and
> grip is also a front end to that as well. grip will use many encoders,
> but the best for you to use is oggenc and cdparanoia. for some reason
> none of that works, just use oggenc from the cli.
> 
I thought Oggenc would produce Ogg Vorbis files rather than mp3s.  This
may be fine and dandy - some folks say that Ogg Vorbis produces better
sound quality. Be that as it may, it's worth bearing in mind that some
(most?) portable players don't recognise the format

Cheers,

Graham