Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

[Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com>]

ZephyrQ wrote:
> I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying 
> eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3.
>
> Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being 
> saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the picture.
>
> What is the best way to do this?  I would prefer a CLI option that I can 
> run in the background, but I want to save as much sound quality as I can 
> with the transfer...

Maybe something like

for i in $(ls -1 *.ogg)
do
n=$i
sox "$n" "$n".mp3"
done

or

oggdec *ogg
lame --preset 192 -ms -h *wav
rm -f *ogg
rm -f *wav
done

/tony

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