Hi All - Happy New Year - I am trying to convert ogg to mp3 for use on an mp3 player. I am using Ubuntu 6.06.1

This may not be the place - or is it? - anyone have a take on why ogg is being so roundly ignored by the electronics industry? I know there are occasional players - i bought one recently - if you wanted to use windoze(!) it worked great.

ogg - Windoze???


anyway - keep it cool and Thanks - T

There was on the net perl script called ogg2mp3... Maybe try it.

If your ogg files are on cd, you could use grip to rip ogg format, and burn mp3 format.

If you have the originals, you better rip the original audio straight to mp3, since converting from ogg to mp3 makes the sound quality worse. But as many people do not have the originals (sooo much legal mp3 files without original discs, hmm..), you'll just probably have to bear.

Can't oggtools decode ogg to wav? If it works (as I believe it should), then just use lame or some other tool to recode wav to mp3. And since clever people automate big works with scripts (or something), write a nice script that will do it automatically for you

Hey all - Thanks for the quick replies.\

One thing i would point out is that i am the poster child for music with no plastic. Does that mean the tunes are stolen? Nope! I bought and paid for each and every CD - some at extreme prices when CDs were new and plastic cost much more ;-) I also was replacing vinyl when i bought them - thats twice I paid. I now - many years later having given away *all* of my plasit cd media, and all of my vinyl - have lots of tunes and no discs.

As far as i can tell the f***ing RIAA owes me a few bucks...

- T