[linux-audio-user] How do you make an ogg?

A technical but mostly non-linux friend was asking me about where Ogg Vorbis is relative to MP3's, given the current status of MP3 encoding software. I did a quick test of making an ogg from a wav, and my naive version produced: [lconrad@tuba renfaire]$ ls -l hercules* -rw-rw-r-- 1 lconrad lconrad 4526080 Aug 18 14:14 hercules2.mp3 -rw-rw-r-- 1 lconrad lconrad 12220015 Sep 3 12:30 hercules2.ogg -rw-rw-r-- 1 lconrad lconrad 49956104 Aug 18 14:09 hercules2.wav I used ecasound to do the encoding, but what my ecasoundrc says it did is: ext-ogg-output-cmd = oggenc --raw -o %f oggenc is: [lconrad@tuba renfaire]$ oggenc -v OggEnc v0.8 (libvorbis rc2) So my question is, is there a way to get the ogg file down closer to the size of the mp3 file? -- Laura (mailto:lconrad@laymusic.org , http://www.laymusic.org/ ) (617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574 233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139