Converting to Opus: 44.1 kHz resampled to 48 kHz Options

[gurkburk]

So i have a bunch of regular 44100 flac files that i'de like to convert to OPUS file so i have something to listen to when i run, that's not very hard to setup following this guide.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/Opus/

What does concern me is that opusenc.exe seems to default to a samplingrate of 48000 when you feed it a raw stream (the '-' option as seen in the guide seems to do that) it's easy to see that the .opus files do indeed become converted/upsampled to 48000hz using this method.
So my question is, should i override this behavior by adding --raw-rate 44100 to the encoder?
Does it matter at all that the files get upsampled? Could it introduce noise or other unwanted side effects?

Thanks

(yes i know that there aren't many android players yet avail for playback of opus, but the question still remains)
Also i think this post belongs to this forums, at least it seemed like it was a good fit, but if i'm wrong please move it :\


This post has been edited by gurkburk: Sep 17 2012, 18:41

[yourlord]

I believe I read in another thread that opus can't truly do gapless, though it can get pretty close to it.

I think I've settled on continuing to use Vorbis for my lossy file encodes because it's the best lossy codec I've found for handling gapless, and gapless matters to me.

I want to see Opus succeed in the interactive space and streaming. If I was currently working on software or a project that involved either I would use Opus, hands down.