Rob Owens wrote: > If you instead use flac as an intermediate step, you may be able to > preserve the meta tags. Going to wav, you will almost certainly lose > them.
In my case I don't care about the tags at all. The temporary mp3 form is a completely throwaway form. The original poster may care though. > > $ ls -log 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.mp3 > > -rw-r--r-- 1 5.9M 2012-02-20 11:03 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.mp3 > > > > $ ffmpeg -i 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.mp3 > > 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg > > > > $ ls -log 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 27M 2012-02-20 11:06 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg > > > > $ ffmpeg -i 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.mp3 > > 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.wav > > $ oggenc 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.wav > > $ ls -log 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 3.3M 2012-02-20 11:04 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg > > It would have to be one of these (but I haven't tested it) > > ffmpeg -i somesong.mp3 -acodec vorbis somesong.ogg Hmm... On my Lenny machine (please don't ask) it is that one. And it is very small and very corrupted. -rw-rw-r-- 1 1.9M 2012-02-20 21:35 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg The result doesn't play. And ogginfo isn't happy with it either. But I am running it on my Lenny laptop at the moment. It might be better in Squeeze. Checking... Squeeze ffmpeg doesn't like -acodec vorbis and for there it is your second case. > or > ffmpeg -i somesong.mp3 -acodec libvorbis somesong.ogg On Squeeze that produces the following: -rw-rw-r-- 1 1.8M Feb 20 22:01 01_-_An_Awful_Lot_Of_Running.ogg Which is also very small but seems to be happier. It doesn't make ogginfo unhappy like the other version did. And if anyone is at my house they are going to be wondering why it is playing through the stereo right now even though I am not there. Seems good. Thanks! > I decided a few years ago that I'd use flac for my entire music > collection, and if needed, convert to another format for reasons of > portability, etc. This way I only get one lossy transcode. I still have all of my original media. I would simply rip it again if and when the time came to convert to a new format. Bob
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