www.dbpoweramp.com convertor works pretty well. Ogg plays in sonique, winamp, etc, with the plugins.
Ogg and monkeys audio are better if you want to encode stuff yourself, like your own music. If you want to get other people's music for free, go with mp3 as it's currently the most popular.
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