lookup mpg32ogg Info: http://directory.fsf.org/all/mp32ogg.html Command-line tool for converting mp3 files to Vorbis ogg format Man page: http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/man/man1/mp32ogg.1.gz Ben On 4/24/07, Dan Lund wrote: > http://faceprint.com/code/ > It's called mp32ogg > > I made a script that just played the mp3 to stdout and piped it to oggenc. > > Naturally, I don't have that script at my disposal. > > but I used mpg123 and oggenc to do the decoding/encoding. > > Here's a quick-n-dirty script to convert them, with those two apps: > > #!/bin/sh > FILES=`ls -1 *.mp3` > MP3DEC="mpg123" > OGGENC="oggenc" > for FILE in ${FILES} > do > OGGNAME=`echo ${I} | sed "s/.mp3/.ogg/"` > ${MP3DEC} -s ${I} | ${OGGENC} -r - -o ${OGGNAME} > done > > You can obviously change the location of the oggfiles being created > and such by tacking on a directory before ${OGGNAME}. > > HTH, > Dan > On 4/23/07, Nathan Aubrey wrote: > > All, > > > > I have literally thousands of mp3 files that I want to convert to ogg. They > > are all legitimate files with no copyrights. Nonetheless, they all have tags > > stating what each file is with author/title and other information in them. Is > > there an easy way to convert them to ogg without having to manually write in > > all the tagging info again? > > > > I am hoping for something that will just read the info into the new file. I > > know I'll loose some quality, but I'm willing to re-encode that as a larger > > file to make up for it. > > > > I want to get away from mp3 and stick with ogg. > > > > nathan > > -- > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > PaysonLinux User Group > > Community Based Linux Support > > http://www.paysonlinux.org/ > > > > Business Consulting Services, > > Advanced Network and Server Design, > > Security Solutions, > > Process Management and Efficiency Consultations > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." > -Napoleon Bonaparte > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss