[FFmpeg-user] Is this the best method to keep audio quality when converting lossy audio to another lossy audio?

[Farhad Mohammadi Majd]

at  Fri Jun 1 14:03:58 EEST 2018, Reino Wijnsma (rwijnsma at xs4all.nl)
wrote:

> so instead of converting the mp3 files to flac, you can also pipe the
> decoded mp3 audio from 'ffmpeg' to 'opusenc'

By this method all the metadata will be lost!!

> On the other hand, if you compiled FFmpeg with libopus, then you
> don't need 'opusenc' at all.

Does ffmpeg has the same output quality of opusenc?