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In the folder Guilty Gear is installed to, such as C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Guilty Gear X2 Reload, there is a "music" folder that contains the in game music in 22Khz and 44khz in .ogg format. There are 42 music files in both the game and the downloadable soundtrack and they all seem to be the same songs in the same order. The in-game 44 khz files are encoded at ~96 kbps VBR while the downloadable soundtrack is encoded at 160 kbps CBR.

Do you think that that GOG just encoded the in-game .ogg files as .mp3 files for the downloadable soundtrack? If this is the case the .ogg files would be higher quality than the downloadable soundtrack and at a smaller file size. I would guess that this is the case because otherwise GOG would have to get the rights to distribute mp3 files they encoded from the separate retail CD soundtrack.
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MrParmesan: In the folder Guilty Gear is installed to, such as C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Guilty Gear X2 Reload, there is a "music" folder that contains the in game music in 22Khz and 44khz in .ogg format. There are 42 music files in both the game and the downloadable soundtrack and they all seem to be the same songs in the same order. The in-game 44 khz files are encoded at ~96 kbps VBR while the downloadable soundtrack is encoded at 160 kbps CBR.

Do you think that that GOG just encoded the in-game .ogg files as .mp3 files for the downloadable soundtrack? If this is the case the .ogg files would be higher quality than the downloadable soundtrack and at a smaller file size. I would guess that this is the case because otherwise GOG would have to get the rights to distribute mp3 files they encoded from the separate retail CD soundtrack.
If this is the case, what tool would you recommend to convert those .ogg files into .mp3 retaining the best quality possible?
Most music software and many portable devices support OGG so if you can play it in that format I would since transcoding from a lossy format like OGG to another lossy format like MP3 will always reduce the quality (see http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Transcoding).

is considered the best MP3 encoder for most purposes. After downloading LAME you can use software such as these programs [url=http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Download_page#Transcoders]http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Download_page#Transcoders to transcode the file. If you use Windows I recommend for ease of use, see [url=http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#converting_audio_files_to_different_file_formats]http://www.foobar2000.org/FAQ#converting_audio_files_to_different_file_formats for instructions. For the MP3 encoding settings I suggest VBR and 192kbps or higher to avoid any significant quality loss.
Post edited November 30, 2012 by MrParmesan