Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)
Thanks for the info. I suppose I'll write a simple script
to do so using notlame, a freeware mp3 encoder that I've
read some good reviews about. Too bad about the gpl issue.
-> craig: sorry about the xtra email... wasn't paying
attention.
jackp
--- Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Jack Pistachio wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg
> vorbis
> > audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the
> info in
> > the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of
> course.
>
> Such a program would essentially just be an ogg vorbis
> decoder piped to
> an mp3 encoder, along with some helpful glue to guess
> which vorbis tags
> to move into the mp3's id3 tags. Since it would have an
> mp3 encoder, it
> couldn't possibly be under GPL, since mp3 encoders are
> patent-encumbered.
>
> I suppose a simpler program that invoked an external mp3
> encoder could
> be GPL'd, but then you still need an mp3 encoder, so you
> can't have a
> fully GPL'd solution.
>
> Craig
>
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