audio conversion problems,,,

Armon · 06-13-2005, 12:28 AM

I checked the wiki and I found how to convert between different audio formats. But, I couldn't find how to convert an ogg format to mp3. Please tell me what commands/scripts/programs I would use to get this done. By the way, im on ubuntu 5.04 if that makes any difference.

acid_kewpie · 06-13-2005, 02:43 AM

ogg2mp3 would be an obvious choice... but there will be dozens of ways to do it.

Speek · 06-13-2005, 10:13 AM

This requires vorbis-tools and lame.

#!/bin/sh
# Convert all ogg vorbis files in current directory to mp3 files.

for file in *.ogg ; do
oggdec "$file"
wavfile=`basename "$file" .ogg`.wav
mp3file=`basename "$file" .ogg`.mp3
lame "$wavfile" "$mp3file"
rm "$wavfile"
# Uncomment the next line if you want the ogg vorbis files to be removed
# rm "$file"
done

oneandoneis2 · 06-13-2005, 10:23 AM

It'll result in a pretty low-quality copy tho - two lossy formats applied to one track? Not good!

Armon · 06-13-2005, 03:51 PM

Thanx a lot guys. It doesn't really matter thought that the quality isn't that great, I'll live. I just needed the files to work on my ipod.