Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Stefan Monnier said:

>> 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...
> 
> You may want to consider this conversion, not as a way to replace your
> Ogg collection with an MP3 collection, but just as a way to get a
> specialized version of your collection for some particular devices.
> 
> My main collection is in Flac format, but I convert it to Ogg(96kb/s)
> before uploading it to my "MP3" player, since Flac would take up too
> much space.  The quality is not as high, but given the circumstances in
> which I listen to it, I can't really tell the difference.
> 
> As for the conversion, I use the script below.

Thanks for sharing the script, Stefan.

-- 
Best,
Marc

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