[Linux-disciples] Converting from Ogg to MP3 en masse

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> Is there some tool out there that will allow me to do
> something really simple like
> ogg2mp3 ~/mp3s

I think all the handy converters go the other way. Free software
developers are more interested in free music formats.

You might try just searching around freshmeat.net, though.

In any case, it really wouldn't be more than a 10 line script.  You
don't need to do mplayer etc.; just

oggdec -o - $x | lame - ${x%%ogg}mp3

where x is your ogg file to be converted.

Adding metatags would be a quick hack of grepping the output of ogginfo
or vorbiscomment, and adding the proper switches to lame, e.g.

title=`vorbiscomment $x | grep -i title | sed "s/^title=//gi"`
(etc...)

oggdec -o - $x | lame - -tt $title ${x%%ogg}mp3
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