Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:55:53PM -0500, 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...

I've used a perl script, ogg2mp3. I haven't compared other
methods. This does get the tags. It depends on a couple
of utilities. Looks like you will still need to write a 
script to recurse through all your music directories.

HTH


-- 
Joel Roth