Converting to OGG

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a_slacker_here
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Greetings ladies and gentlemen.

I use oggconvert to transform mp3 to ogg.
The problem is that i can only do this with 1 file at time and I would want to select multiple files and let the program do the job instead of waiting for the program to finish and then selecte the next file.

Please give me a solution.

Thank you.

a_slacker_here
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Oh, I forgot to mention that I want to convert sound files not video.

quantumgravity
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Why don't you use the star * instead of the whole filename?
Just copy the files you want to convert into a folder and then write *.mp3 as inputfile.
Not quite sure but this should do the job.

GNUser
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What he said. Also, I believe most software in GNU/Linux will give you the commands you can use if you type for example oggconvert --help
Maybe the way quantumgravity suggested will work, maybe you have to use a different syntax. Try the help command to see what you can use the program for. If not, maybe you can create a script (which would still require you to write all the names of the files you wanted).

a_slacker_here
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I've already tried that and it doesn't work.

I'm looking for a way to do it from command line but I have to teach another person how to do it and he/she is not familiar with those kind of enviroments.

GNUser
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the oggconvert --help does not show anything?

ivaylo
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В 13:16 +0100 на 24.12.2013 (вт), name at domain написа:

> I'm looking for a way to do it from command line but I have to teach another
> person how to do it and he/she is not familiar with those kind of
> enviroments.

Choose one of the Ogg command tools (dir2ogg, oggenc directly, etc.).
Make a small bash script around it that accepts a file or a directory as
an argument and makes the conversion. Provide the script to the person
who needs it. Even cooler is to use zenity to provide GUI input/output
and execute the script from GUI directly. I've used zenity exactly for
that - automate a task with a shell script and make it usable for people
using GUI.

jbar
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Try dir2ogg. It converts many formats to ogg.

$ man dir2ogg

ZykoticK9
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just like to point out, that converting from one lossy format to another lossy is a bad idea. these new OGGs aren't going to be as good, sound wise, as the MP3s you are replacing. for confirmation, see vorbis FAQ topic at http://www.vorbis.com/faq/#transcode

a_slacker_here
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Ok, I will have this in mind; I will keep files in mp3 but I will transform the Wav ones to ogg.

Thank you.

Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastoggenc/
http://www.tuxamito.com/joomla/index.php/en/component/content/article/46-fastoggenc/86-fastoggenc

I use currently. Properly preserves metadata, if I remember
correctly. Lacks a normalization feature (not repalygain, which I love
but the audio players compiled for the ben Nano Note don't seam to
support replaygain.), I have a badly hacked version which normalizes the
audio using sox. http://software.aross.me

or there's pacpl in the repo. which is what I have used in the past.
sudo apt-get install pacpl

a_slacker_here
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Thank you jbar, It works like a Dream.

I need to program a script to make easier for my friends to use the tool.

GNUser, Oggconvert does not have a command line tool so I could not do those things.

Well, Thank you all.

GNUser
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Ups sorry... I don't know the software you were trying to use, I was merely giving you a suggestion (I thought it was a command line app since you said you were doing it that way).
Well, I am happy you at least got your solution :)

a_slacker_here
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No problem, any suggestion is well recieved.

Also, let me wish you, to all of you, merry christmas.

teodorescup

I am a member!

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Soundconverter or soundkonverter ?!

a_slacker_here
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Perfect, that is exactly what I needed, thank you very much.
They were very scared when I told them that I should teach them how to use the command line.

Also, thanks to all of you.

Alij
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Joined: 05/07/2012

Soundconverter stop working suddenly for me at least in one of my laptops. I don't know why.

onpon4
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WinFF also works. It's a frontend to FFmpeg.

a_slacker_here
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Now, with Winff, I have a lot of options.

Thank you again for your help.

ish
ish
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You can use dir2ogg. It's available in Trisquel repo.

sudo apt-get install dir2ogg