Re: MP3 to Ogg conversion

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 <situationalawareness@gmail.com> 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 <paysonlinux@gmail.com> 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
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