Audio converter

Ignatius881 · 2011-04-07 00:52:26

Hello.

I'm looking for an audio converter to convert my mp3 audio files to ogg. It seems that all packages from AUR are unsupported.

ewaller · 2011-04-07 02:07:13

Which AUR packages did you try, and why do you assert they are not supported.

There may be dependency issues that need to be handled by you (Other things in ABS or AUR)

If the package is truly not supported, make sure you post a comment in the AUR to the author -- they may want to know. I've a few things in there and I know I appreciate it.

Of course, I may be misunderstanding you and the packages just don't make the conversion. MP3 is lossy; In my opinion you'll probably not like the results

igndenok · 2011-04-07 02:26:27

You just need lame and vorbis-tools to convert mp3 to ogg (MP3 -> WAV -> OGG) and they're already in extra.

ewaller wrote:

MP3 is lossy; In my opinion you'll probably not like the results

I agree with this.

nesk · 2011-04-07 04:41:49

+1 to above, you will most likely lose quality with lossy->lossy conversion.
If you have sources (CD, .wav or lossless formats) - foobar has a very handy converter, runs out of the box with wine.

karol · 2011-04-07 05:20:15

Maybe OP meant AUR is unsupported the same way [community] is.

ewaller · 2011-04-07 05:22:38

karol wrote:

Maybe OP meant AUR is unsupported the same way [community] is.

You may be correct. I had not parsed it that way

JackH79 · 2011-04-07 05:29:30

If you can't find a proper audio converter, easiest would be to just use ffmpeg (which should be installed anyway).

Just go to your folder where you have your mp3s and this command will convert all files in that folder

find -name '*.mp3' -exec ffmpeg -i {} -acodec vorbis -aq 100 {}.ogg \;

Ignatius881 · 2011-04-07 11:48:37

JackH79 wrote:

If you can't find a proper audio converter, easiest would be to just use ffmpeg (which should be installed anyway).
Just go to your folder where you have your mp3s and this command will convert all files in that folder
find -name '*.mp3' -exec ffmpeg -i {} -acodec vorbis -aq 100 {}.ogg \;

Yes, maybe it's useful for me, thanks.

stqn · 2011-04-07 12:55:12

Not sure if it's up to date, but:

http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/VorbisEncoders wrote:

FFmpeg contains an independent Vorbis encoder implementation (see FFmpeg audio codecs, often called FFVorbis), but it's considered broken. So, unless you have a special reason to use it, make sure to use the ffmpeg command line option -acodec libvorbis (= Xiph Libvorbis) when encoding, rather than -acodec vorbis (= FFVorbis) which is also often the default one.

Edit: See http://xiphmont.livejournal.com/51160.html for more information.

You might also want to try libvorbis-aotuv which probably gives even better quality than the standard libvorbis. I was amazed by the sound quality at 32kbps.

Edit: Installing libvorbis-aotuv simply replaces libvorbis, so it should be a no-brainer .

Last edited by stqn (2011-04-07 13:31:03)

igndenok · 2011-04-07 15:24:29

stqn wrote:

You might also want to try libvorbis-aotuv which probably gives even better quality than the standard libvorbis. I was amazed by the sound quality at 32kbps.

Oh yeah, I forgot with aotuv version. Definitely use aotuv version especially when you're looking for low bitrate.

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