Convert Music Library to Ogg

arew264 · 2009-05-29 19:53:05

I have a rather extensive music library that consists of mixed FLAC, MP3, M4A, WMA, and a few OGG files (I try to always rip to FLAC, but before I went to a centralized media library, some of the files were ripped by iTunes and Windows Media Player). I'd like to encode the whole thing to OGG so it fits on my iPod. Is there any good way to do this? I've been looking around to try and write a Java application that does it automagically, but I can't find a good way to edit metadata on Ogg and FLAC files. I could just run metaflac and its Ogg equivalent from Java, but that would be more than a little painful, not to mention dirty and unreliable.
Actually, on second thought, should I just be converting the FLAC files?

EDIT:
If I run `oggenc` on a FLAC file, the metadata gets moved over automagically... Let me see about the rest. And let me see if I like the quality of MP3 encoded to Ogg...

Last edited by arew264 (2009-05-29 20:00:19)

ataraxia · 2009-05-29 20:05:11

Converting lossy to lossy is generally a bad idea. FLAC to Ogg/Vorbis should work fine, the rest you should re-rip.

arew264 · 2009-05-29 20:09:22

I keep saying I'll re-rip things, but I haven't gotten down to it. I'm low on hard drive space, and my linux box doesn't have the CD drive connected because I don't have a free IDE channel. But yea, that's really what I should do.
I'll see if just reencoding the FLAC files will shrink the library enough to fit. I've only got a 4GB iPod Mini.

karol · 2009-05-29 20:18:11

Are you sure you iPod supports ogg?

xd-0 · 2009-05-29 20:22:33

Didn't now ipod supported ogg. Anyway:

oggenc -q6 *flac

is the way to go. No converting from lossy to lossy. You should also install libvorbis-aotuv for best quality (according to the hydrogenaudio wiki).

arew264 · 2009-05-29 21:26:28

iPod Mini supports Ogg if you run the Rockbox firmware, which I run. It's awesome.

ataraxia · 2009-05-30 04:26:19

The best way to rip lots of CDs quickly is to borrow another machine or two and rip several at once. I did 150 CDs in two easy evenings with two machines.

eDio · 2009-05-30 09:07:21

For encoding I still use foobar2000 under wine. It takes care about all metadata.

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Convert Music Library to Ogg

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