[svlug] Program/Script to Turn OGGs into MP3s?

Mike Castle dalgoda at ix.netcom.com
Fri Apr 11 22:20:24 PDT 2003


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 06:37:18PM -0700, Serban Giuroiu wrote:
> Does anyone know of a program or script I can use to
> turn my OGGs into MP3s so my MP3 CD player can play them?

How about something off the cuff like:

#!/bin/bash
set -e
for v in "$@"; do
	outfn=$(basename "$v" .ogg)
	ogg123 -d wav -f - "$v" | lame --preset standard - "$outfn"
done

Leave it as an exercise on out to extract tags with ogginfo and how to pass
them to lame.

mrc
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