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FenrirAB

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Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 40

anyway to convert to mp3 using VLC/RhythmBox?

Hi community,

while i have no problem with lets say .ogg files, i would like the ability to converter such file type to *.mp3.

i tried converting in VLC and everytime i pick the format type to MP3 and set the destination, it always try to save/convert as *.ts instead of *.mp3

I tried using RhythmBox, since the file i am trying to convert is from a CD, but when i change the Preference -> Music Tab -> Preferred Format: MP3
it says that: "Install additional software to use this format."

i figure their inability to convert to mp3 might be the same....

I looked around the forum and it seem that there's a promising post about installing gstreamer...

unfortunately I already have the gstreamer installed (from good-bad-ugly and plugins)

and now im stumped. i dont know if there some sort of restricted-extra in Arch

any help would be apprieciated.

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the_shiver

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Registered: 2013-03-27

Posts: 130

Re: anyway to convert to mp3 using VLC/RhythmBox?

for a single file

ffmpeg -i $name.ogg $name.mp3

for multiple files

for name in *.ogg; do ffmpeg -i "$name" "$name.mp3"; done;

out of curiosity: why do you want to convert from one lossy format to another?

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: anyway to convert to mp3 using VLC/RhythmBox?

ffmpeg is the fastest and most powerful choice for audio conversion, but if you prefer using a GUI, there's soundconverter

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: anyway to convert to mp3 using VLC/RhythmBox?

I looked around the forum and it seem that there's a promising post about installing gstreamer...

unfortunately I already have the gstreamer installed (from good-bad-ugly and plugins)

I don't use rhythmbox, so hopefully this helps.

Do you have the correct gstreamer stuff? rhythmbox uses the newer version of gsteamer, so you'll need gst-plugins-ugly and gst-plugins-bad. These are not the same as the gstreamer0.10 stuff.