If you’re an audiophile, then you must have wondered how to convert MP3 files into OGG format, either on your PC or on your Android device. MP3 (previously known as MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a digital audio format that is best known for its audio compression (the aspect of this format most familiar to the end-users).
To perform this audio compression successfully, MP3 format files use lossy data compression in the encoding of data by using inexact approximations and the partial discarding of data. MP3 file format was first released 27 years ago in 1993. It is an open format digital audio but is encumbered by copyright, meaning it is not free for all file formats.
OGG is a free, open container format currently run by the Xiph.Org Foundation. What makes this audio format unique is, according to its creators, its unusual ability to operate unrestricted by software patents. This ensures that the OGG format can live up to its reputation of being designed to provide end-users with efficient streaming and the manipulation of high-quality digital multimedia. The name OGG comes from the word “Ogging”, which is just geek jargon derived from the computer video game titled Netrek.
Reasons to Convert MP3 Files to OGG Format
So why would or should anybody want to convert their MP3 files to OGG format? OGG offers many advantages over MP3, some of which include:
- OGG is an open encoding format which is also available free of charge;
- OGG encoding done at 192 kbps (kilobits per second) is of superior quality to MP3 at 192 kbps. However, at 128 kbps, they are both of similar quality;
- As regards sound quality, OGG does better than MP3;
- MP3 has copyright restrictions while OGG remains free for all audio file format.
