[olug] music transcoding

[Adam Lassek]

That's part of what I need. I also want it to preserve metadata, though. 

On 7/2/05, Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
> Adam,
> I wrote a quick script to do this for me to allow me to put ogg on my
> ipod, no gui...
> 
> !/usr/bin/perl
> @titles = @ARGV;
> $i=0;
> foreach(@titles){
> 
>        print STDOUT "Found $titles[$i]  \n";
>         @song_title = split(/\./, $titles[$i]);
>         $cmd = "oggdec $titles[$i] -o - | lame - $song_title[0].mp3";
>         print STDOUT "Issuing: $cmd \n";
>         system $cmd;
>         $i++;
> }
> print STDOUT "DONE.\n\n";
> 
> 
> Hope this helps, best of luck.
> 
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:48 -0500, Adam Lassek wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a program that will let me drag-n-drop transcode ogg
> > files into mp3? Something like oggdrop for windows, even better if it
> > can do batches. Preferably a gnome program, but KDE is acceptable as
> > well.
> >
> > Don't bother telling me it's a bad idea to transcode between lossy
> > formats, trust me, I'm well aware. But under the circumstances I'll be
> > using them, it'll sound just fine and reripping from source is either
> > impossible or too much trouble.
> 
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