Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Neidorff
On Monday 25 May 2009 01:55 pm, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone tha

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-27 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
ZephyrQ wrote: Stefan Monnier wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread ZephyrQ
Stefan Monnier wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread marc
Stefan Monnier said: >> I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all >> prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg >> to .mp3. > >> Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being >> saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled > with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the picture.

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread marc
Mike Castle said: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM, marc wrote: >> ogg is a container, so unless you used a lossless codec (i.e. FLAC) >> then the mp3s are going to sound horrible, especially as mp3 also has >> "sound shaping" and, usually, produces variable bit rate files. > > I thought most o

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:54 PM, marc wrote: > ogg is a container, so unless you used a lossless codec (i.e. FLAC) then > the mp3s are going to sound horrible, especially as mp3 also has "sound > shaping" and, usually, produces variable bit rate files. I thought most ogg's were typically vorbis.

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-26 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Johnson: > ZephyrQ wrote: > >> I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying >> eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. >> >> Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being >> saddled with cell phone that won't

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3--open formats

2009-05-25 Thread David Fox
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 6:49 PM, ZephyrQ wrote: > it at a friends house) or needs marching band music (a HUGE gap in Linux > support, BTW).  She has also given up trying to convince me to load XP 'just > so I can get stuff done'. I hope you're not hinting that Linux and marching band music don't

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3--open formats

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
Paul Johnson wrote: ZephyrQ wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg.

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
This sounds like what I need...now I just have to dust off a few websites to remember how to write a bash script... Matthew Moore wrote: > On Monday 25 May 2009 11:55:53 am ZephyrQ wrote: >> What is the best way to do this? I would prefer a CLI option that I can >> run in the background, but I

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
ZephyrQ wrote: Just for the record, I did just that (minor differences). My issue isn't finding a way...it is finding the *best* way...and I don't have time to go through a kajillion options... ...which is why I asked a list full of knowledgeable users who know a lot more than I about CLI...

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:55:53PM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:29:08PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > Try using the following command in the CLI: > > for i in *.ogg; do [[ ! -a "${i%ogg}mp3" ]] && oggdec "$i" -o - | lame > - --preset standard - "${i%ogg}mp3" ; done This loses all the metadata in the file. The audio stream will be

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread marc
ZephyrQ said: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you g

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
Just for the record, I did just that (minor differences). My issue isn't finding a way...it is finding the *best* way...and I don't have time to go through a kajillion options... ...which is why I asked a list full of knowledgeable users who know a lot more than I about CLI... JoeHill wro

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
On 25 May 2009, at 20:19, Paul Johnson wrote: ZephyrQ wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Paul Johnson
ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you g

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Moore
On Monday 25 May 2009 11:55:53 am ZephyrQ wrote: > What is the best way to do this? I would prefer a CLI option that I can > run in the background, but I want to save as much sound quality as I can > with the transfer... You should write a script that does the following: -) decodes the ogg files

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Tony Baldwin
ZephyrQ wrote: I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/09 18:55, ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread JoeHill
ZephyrQ wrote: > I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying > eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. > > Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being > saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, y

mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread ZephyrQ
I have a large number of music files (17 gig worth...yes, for all prying eyes they are legal...) that I find I need to convert from .ogg to .mp3. Not that I want to...but between a teenager with an iphone and being saddled with cell phone that won't play .ogg...well, you get the picture. What