Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > > > ffmpeg -i somesong.mp3 -acodec libvorbis somesong.ogg > > This command was successful on my system as well, although it produced a > very low bitrate ogg file. You can add one of these switches to the > ffmpeg command to correct this: > > -aq 5 #set the quality leve

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > You're the second person to recommend Rockbox to me this week. I guess > I'll have to try it out. The voice menus feature sounds very useful. > > I forgot to mention two other features I like about the Clip+. It is > small, and it has real buttons. I can actually operate it

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rob Owens: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:06:35AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> +1. I love my Sansa Clip+! I have installed Rockbox on it and >> always use that interface.[1] One of the best features for me is that >> I always turn on accessibility and create voice menus for all of the >> audio

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:06:35AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > By the way, I've gotta say that I'm pretty happy with my Sansa Clip+. > > It was cheap and is Linux friendly. It is seen as a removable drive. > > It works well with Rhythmbox and I can use Rhythmbox to create playl

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Rob Owens wrote: > By the way, I've gotta say that I'm pretty happy with my Sansa Clip+. > It was cheap and is Linux friendly. It is seen as a removable drive. > It works well with Rhythmbox and I can use Rhythmbox to create playlists > on the Clip+. Even firmware upgrades are Linux friendly. Ju

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:35:20PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Rob Owens wrote: > > 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 v

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
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 car

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:50:30AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Curt wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > >> I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. > > > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > > > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > > >

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. > > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > > can only play mp3 format. I simply convert the file to .wav format > >

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-20, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. > > Me too. > > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > can only play mp3 format. I simply convert the file to .wav f

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Jon Dowland
On 20/02/12 04:39, Carl Fink wrote: find . -name "*mp3" -exec oggenc {} \; On a multi-core system, for a small-ish number of files, I would suggest find . -name "*mp3" -exec oggenc {} + which will run the oggenc processes in parallel. (Of course you have two distinct lossy compress

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Chris Davies
Bob Proulx wrote: > I have the opposite problem. Everything I have is in ogg format. But > sometimes I want to play on a device that doesn't understand ogg and > can only play mp3 format. Likewise. I have a script that contains a loop around what amounts to three commands: oggdec -o "$WAV"

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Sunday 19 February 2012 9:44:52 pm Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3 > to

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 feb 12, 20:44:52, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk You are of course aware that this conversion might result in loss of quality, right? Depen

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Carl Fink wrote: > Chris wrote: > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place > > for the mp3 to the ogg format. > > I'm lazy so I'd use the command line. Me too. I have the opposite problem. Everything

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-19 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk I have a script for that (although, likely someone with better fu could make a

Re: Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:44:52PM -0600, Chris wrote: > Hey there all. > > I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. > > Is there something out there that will > > 1. Convert to ogg enbulk > 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3

Convert mp3 enbulk

2012-02-19 Thread Chris
Hey there all. I have taken my audio cd collection and ripped to 192 bit mp3 files. Is there something out there that will 1. Convert to ogg enbulk 2. Then, I would like to duplicate the structure I have I place for the mp3 to the ogg format. Currently, the structure is thus Artist (directory)