[Nottingham] Converting mp3 to ogg

[Jim Moore]

I used DBPowerAmp to convert entire trees of mp3 to pcm wav (it's a
win32 binary but runs extremely well in WINE), then the same app to
encode to ogg. It's an extra step, but it's only two hits of the "GO"
button and you may find that you suffer very little loss in initial
quality (dependent on source bitrate and desired bitrate). This also
takes a huge amount of space: a 5MB mp3 at 256kbps (translating to
just under two and a half minutes of audio) will result in a 25MB pcm
wav file. 500GB of mp3 could conceivably require 5TB (source average:
128kbps) of temporary space for the process.

A minor caveat though: for some reason some of my audio ended up
mispitched by upwards of 15%. Made my Audrey Gallagher collection
sound like Norman Bates doing karaoke. Turned Barry White into the
Smurf World Party.

Actually, that didn't sound too bad.

On 8/15/09, Michael Simms <michael at tuxgames.com> wrote:
> This is the script we use on the commercial games we make, its quite
> simple, but seems to work well. Requires mplayer and oggenc
>
>
> Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
> http://www.tuxgames.com
>
> On 08/15/2009 05:54 PM, Simon Sleaford wrote:
>> I'm trying to convert my mp3 collection to ogg, I've managed to do a few
>> using Oggconvert http://oggconvert.tristanb.net/.
>>
>> I'm happy enough that I'm not losing too much quality wise by converting
>> from one format to another but it's a little slow because it seems to only
>> be able to do one file at a time.
>>
>> Can anybody recommend a program that will do a folder of files or even
>> crawl
>> my music folder and convert everything while I leave it to it? Preferably
>> looking for something that will leave the originals intact in case of any
>> hiccups before I've checked them out.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Simo.
>>
>>
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