best audio/sound converter

[Gabriel M Dragffy]

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.

Could someone provide an example line to use in the command line for
example. Reading the man page give so many options and I'm not sure
which ones I even need. All this stuff about little and big endians is
most confusing. Aren't Endians Native Americans or something?