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I thought it would be useful to post this:

 

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12608

 

audiokonverter is a small utility to easily convert from OGG, MP3, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WMA, RealAudio, Musepack, Wavpack, WAV and movies to MP3, OGG, M4A, WAV and FLAC in Konqueror by right-clicking on them. It needs oggenc, oggdec, faac, faad, flac, mplayer and lame to work. id3lib is optional for full functionality. Also optional are vorbis-tools and metaflac for handling other metadata.

 

This has been said before, but I will say it again:

 

By converting a lossy file (e.g. mp3) into another lossy file (e.g. mp3), the file will LOOSE quality

 

So one possible approach to counter this, is for example:

- use FLAC when ripping files from a CD for storage on hard disk. FLAC is a compressed, but LOSLESS format, meaning that you will always have the best quality if you start FROM a FLAC file

- convert the FLAC files to mp3 or ogg files to take with you on your portable mp3/media player

 

Linux can recognize most mp3 players as '(USB) mass storage' devices. Functionality for iPods is provided in the music programs Banshee and Amarok.

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