Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

[Sjoerd Hardeman <sjoerd@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl>]

ZephyrQ wrote:
> Stefan Monnier 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...
> >
> > 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.
> <script cut>
>
> This looks great...just to make sure...I can use it to convert my oggs 
> to mp3 on the fly?  Just point it to a directory and pipe it to a 
> destination and I have my mp3s?
>
> Forgive my ignorance concerning scripts, but I haven't written one since 
>  DOS 6.2...
I found http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ a very useful resource for script 
programming.

Sjoerd

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