MP3 to OGG troubles

[atran]

I am trying to convert some MP3 to OGG so I can preserve quality while getting the file size down to put on a MP3 that I plan on getting. I first downloaded mediacoder and was playing around with it. I noticed that I would hear some static and "noise" in the songs when I would encode them. So I downloaded besweet and it went all down hill from there. I try to get besweet to work and I click MP3 to OGG. Nothing happens, my file isn't there. I try oggmachine, I click go, nothing happens. I try belight, it says transcoding done in 0 seconds with no output file. It is really frustrating me. Can someone help me out?

[02:38:45] : BeLight version 0.2.2.0 beta 9 started !
[02:38:45] : Microsoft Windows XP Professional (version 5.1, Build 2600 : Service Pack 2)
[02:38:45] : Checking libraries for BeSweet...
[02:38:45] : libvorbis.dll missing !!!
[02:38:45] : VOBInput.dll missing !!!
[02:38:56] : 07 Speed Of Sound.mp3 --> 07 Speed Of Sound.ogg
[02:42:18] : 07 Speed Of Sound.mp3 --> 07 Speed Of Sound.ogg
[02:42:26] : 07 Speed Of Sound.mp3 --> 07 Speed Of Sound.ogg

EDIT: Ok I found the libvorbis.dll on http://www.rarewares.org/ogg-libraries.php and got that. I also got the VOBInput.dll off some dll site off google. I got a ogg file encoded successfully and am listening to it. One other question, is this VOBInput.dll off this random dll site just as good as any other one? Another question. When I did a transcode in belight, it didn't copy the ID3 tags over. I didn't have it disabled in the advanced options too. Is there something I am doing wrong because it will be a serious pain to copy all those over.

[foxyshadis]

Hate to say it now that you finally got Besweet working and everything, but really, foobar is a much better transcoder. It'll correct for replaygain or normalize, copy tags over, let you specify encoding options (not that vorbis has many), and has more DSP options that besweet (like EQ, as well as the compression/limiting, downmixing, and resampling that both have).

That said, there are mass taggers out there that will let you load old files on one side, new files on the other, and copy tags. I don't remember names, since I've never needed advanced taggers.

[atran]

Ok I downloaded foobar, but I am not sure how this is much better. I go to converter and it seems much more basic and ask for a vorbisenc.exe . I downloaded this program called winvorbis that had that exe. But I don't know if I am doing this correctly.

[derf]

You would be better off keeping your mp3 file because when converting from one lossy format to another, say from 256 kb/s to 128 kb/s, you lose much more quality than when encoding from CD to 128 kb/s.