convert ogg to mp3

[robghealey]

Does anyone know if there is a program for converting ogg to mp3?

Your quick response will be greatly appreciated?

[nlkrio]

if you search you have found many threads like this

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...hlight=ogg+mp3

good luck

[robghealey]

I found another way to do it as well. I can't get the nautilus script to work for me. I am not sure what I did wrong.

normalize-mp3 --mp3 *.ogg but it doesn't retain the metatag information! Does anyone know how to keep the metatag info?

[LinuxHippy]

audacity for ogg>mp3

lame for tags

[Firewing1]

my signature's link has the FW audio-convert-mod project -- it's a script that with a simple right-click you can batch or single convert any from or to:
OGG, MP3, MAC, FLAC, WAV
And can read:
Unprotected WMA, AAC, SHN
You can also edit the metatags of files.
Firewing1

[pedromatiello]

you can also use this simple python script to convert all oggs in a dir to mp3.
needs transcode, lame and ogginfo.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Pedro Matiello, Jan, 06, 2006

import sys
import os

try:
if (sys.argv[1]):
dir = sys.argv[1]
print "Converting ogg files in " + dir + "..."
except:
print "Error. Syntax: " + sys.argv[0] + " <directory>"
sys.exit(1)

try:
ls = os.listdir(dir)
ls.sort()
except:
print "Error: Can't access directory " + dir + "."
sys.exit(2)

for each in ls:
try:
print "Converting " + each + "..."
ogginfo = os.popen("ogginfo \"" + dir + each + "\"|grep =");
tags = ogginfo.readlines()
title = tags[0].replace("\tTITLE=","").replace("\n","")
artist = tags[1].replace("\tARTIST=","").replace("\n","")
album = tags[2].replace("\tALBUM=","").replace("\n","")
year = tags[3].replace("\tDATE=","").replace("\n","")
track = tags[4].replace("\tTRACKNUMBER=","").replace("\n","")
ogginfo.close()
os.system("transcode -x null,ogg -i " + "\"" + dir + each + "\"" + " -y null,lame -b 192 -o" + "\"" + artist + " - " + album + " - " + track + " - " + title + "\" > /dev/null 2>&1")
os.system("id3tag -a \"" + artist + "\" -A\"" + album + "\" -s\"" + title + "\" -y" + year + " -t" + track + " " + "\"" + artist + " - " + album + " - " + track + " - " + title + ".mp3\" > /dev/null 2>&1")
except:
pass

print "Finished."

[gotmonkey]

Originally Posted by Firewing1

my signature's link has the FW audio-convert-mod project -- it's a script that with a simple right-click you can batch or single convert any from or to:
OGG, MP3, MAC, FLAC, WAV
And can read:
Unprotected WMA, AAC, SHN
You can also edit the metatags of files.
Firewing1

FW, I am getting this error when I try to install. Any idea what I can do to fix it?

[root@localhost audio-convert-mod-3.42]# ./systeminstall.sh
cp: cannot stat `/etc/skel/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/audio-convert-mod/Convert Files (v3.42)': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/local/bin/audio-convert-mod': No such file or directory
System install complete.

In nautilus now, I see a scripts line when I right click and I can open the scripts folder that has a remove .converted script

[Firewing1]

Sorry, there's a glitch in the v3.42 script that does that - when I have enough improvements to release 3.43, it'll be fixed as one of the things... For now, just run:

cp /etc/skel/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/audio-convert-mod/* ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/audio-convert-mod

Now use 'convert files' to change MP3's to OGG.
Firewing1

[volcano]

Here's a nice prog! http://www.soundtaxi.info/

[Knudson]

btw why don't you just keep your ogg ? usually the conversion from a lossy format to another lossy format isn't a very clever idea, most of the time you'll lose in quality

[gotmonkey]

Originally Posted by Knudson

btw why don't you just keep your ogg ? usually the conversion from a lossy format to another lossy format isn't a very clever idea, most of the time you'll lose in quality

Unfortunately, my ipod and my wife's Rio mp3 player don't support the ogg format.

[a thing]

Fortunately, there are Ogg hardware players.

[Firewing1]

But it doesn't help when you've already bought one
Firewing1

yeah converting lossy to another lossy.. man.. yuck! :P

sell you hardware that cant use ogg :P

[wshawn]

Personally, I'm so pissed at the crap they are pulling with MP3s I would sell or throw the MP3 player away and buy one that plays oggs. Oggs sound better and are smaller than mp3s at the same bitrate anyway. I am converting years of Wavs / MP3s to Ogg and not looking back. Smaller storage foot print and better quality to pull from.