hi
can anyone suggest a good command line tool for conversion of files
from ogg to mp3?

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J Suresh Kumar
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fmpeg -i Epoq-Lepidoptera.ogg -vn -ab 64k -ac 1 -ar 22050 -acodec
libmp3lame Epoq-Lepidoptera.mp3

You can use this for all kind of conversions like extracting audio
only from a video also.

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A.Rajesh Khanna

tying this..

fmpeg -i Epoq-Lepidoptera.ogg -vn -ab 64k -ac 1 -ar 22050 -acodec
libmp3lame Epoq-Lepidoptera.mp3

i get " unknown codec lipmp3lame "

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J Suresh Kumar
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You have to have the mp3lame codec package installed.

Fedora package is lame, on Mandriva see this
Organize your music with Mandriva Linux You have to add another
repository to your urpmi sources.

Thanks

I tried and it works too.

$ ffmpeg -i foo.ogg foo.mp3

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

$ sox foo.ogg foo.mp3

$ ogg2mp3 foo.ogg

Multiple pass method.

$ oggdec foo.ogg

$ lame -b 112 foo.wav foo.mp3

There are also other mp3 encoders (excluding ffmpeg) called toolame and
twolame. There is bladeenc but I hear it is not that good.

Of course you can use transcode(1) and mencoder(1) for the same purpose
with the null video input switch.

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Shaalini.S
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okay works - cool

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J Suresh Kumar
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Is this a good idea, converting from one lossy format to another ?

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A.Rajesh Khanna

While there are many tools to do this, this is in general not a good
idea since you would have a definite loss of quality converting from one
lossy format to another.

If you are ripping, rip into lossless formats like FLAC initially and
then use it for conversion into other lossy formats like Ogg Vorbis for
general usage.

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Shaalini.S
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This is good advice.

I hope the question is rhetorical. It is better to digitize in FLAC
format (assuming you have enough disk space) if the intent is to
archive your music and then convert it to whatever format your portable
playback device supports.

what to do? no one can get ogg to work on their machines so I have to
switch to mp3

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J Suresh Kumar
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On most GNU/Linux systems ogg will play by default. On Windows and
Macs ,VLC can play ogg. See playogg.org

It can be easily setup to work with Windows Media Player after
installing the codec from Vorbis.com: Windows Setup

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Arichuvadi <------- this site works only on mandriva and suse

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J Suresh Kumar
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What doesn't work on other OS?

Nothing but not able to play the audio on the site

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J Suresh Kumar
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works well in my gentoo....

Works in the "Greatest and latest" distro as well.

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I must report that I have been unable to get it to work on
Debian, but not because I can't play oggs (all my music is in ogg). The
problem I face is that the Play button is unclickable (on pages like
Arichuvadi)

Exactly the same problem in Fedora.

source code is there on the site - if it clicks in mandriva, suse,
gentoo and the 'latest and greatest distro' why shouldn't it click in
Debian and Fedora?

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