GUI encoder from wav to ogg/mp3
 

Do any of you know of any nice gui that converts wav's to ogg's/mp3's. I don't want grip or ripperx -- they only work with CD's as far as I can tell. I have a lot of wav's I've been ripping from old cassette tapes with audacity, and would like a way to encode them to both ogg and mp3 without doing 'oggenc' and 'lame' for each on the command line. Thanks.

well, it is not GUI, but really easy to use, and it's called Bladeenc (http://bladeenc.mp3.no/). I've been using it for long time and works pretty well. You can set some parameters to conversion (such as bitrate and some others).

What do you need a gui for? Just use:
for your oggs, and for mp3s use:
Both these commands will convert all .wavs in a directory to oggs or mp3s respectively.

Thanks for the replies
 

Thanks bulliver and Hammett for the recommendations. That answered the question: I guess there isn't already a GUI. I don't *need* GUI; I'm OK w/ command line, but just thought someone might have written a useful program like that already. I'll just put bulliver's suggestion into a script, add the needed options, and run the script from each directory to do batch encoding! The 'sed' part of the script helped a lot, BTW...

He he, cool. I'm sure there is a gui, but in the time it takes you to find and install it your files could be converted :)

doesn't work
 

bulliver:

great idea, but the script doesn't work for titles with spaces in them.

Well, I do almost all my work from the cli so I make a point of not putting spaces in my filenames.

I noticed that ripperX allows you to convert wavs to mp3s, maybe try that...

Re: doesn't work
 

Just put double quotes around $i and it will work for filenames with spaces too.

When working with filename expansion, it is a good idea to put the variable in double quotes:

for i in *.wav; do oggenc "$i"; done

This way, if a file contains white-space, the $i variable isn't split into seperate files after $i is evaluated.

Works like a charm! Thanks everyone.