Converting mp3 to ogg, suggestive?

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I'm thinking about converting my mp3 based music library to ogg, due to ogg being a free and open standard format (I guess there are other reasons too). As far as I know there's a chance of losing some sound quality when converting mp3 to ogg and vice versa (?).

Would you suggest converting mp3 to ogg, or is it such a bad idea that I'd have to rip all CDs to ogg instead of converting? (if this would turn up I'd rip to flac anyway I guess).
How would I be able to convert mp3 to ogg the easiest way, copying ID3-Tags too? (on a *nix-based environment)

Best regards!

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