Ogg to mp3, anyone?

[Timothy Murphy]

I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
(My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)

I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.

If anyone knows where I can find this program,
or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
I would be very grateful.

[Antonio Olivares]

> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg
> music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a
> ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the
> program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.
>
> --

A script called ogg2mp3 in Linux Questions may help:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/.ogg_to_.mp3

Cut and paste it and save as ogg2mp3 in any directory where the ogg files are at or whereever you want it, then 
$ chmod +x ogg2mp3
then run it like the suggestion

find /path -name *.ogg -exec ogg2mp3 {} ;

Hope this helps,

Antonio

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/20/2012 09:03 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.

It seems a simple google search of "convert ogg to mp3 linux" would get
you going.

Giving a cursory glance would seem to indicate this can easily be done
on the command line using a combination of  oggdec and lame.

[JD]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to
> mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.
>
> I have successfully converted ogg to mp3 using ffmpeg

Be sure you have both mp3 libs (codecs) and ogg libs (codecs) installed.

[Ranjan Maitra]

Does mp4 work for you? In that case, you can use vlc:
http://maketecheasier.com/convert-ogg-to-mp4-using-vlc-media-player/2008/02/...

I have not had the need to do this yet.

Ranjan

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:03:16 +0000 Timothy Murphy 
wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.
>
> -- 
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[nomnex]

> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:03:16 +0000
> Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,

"Sound converter" GTK (GUI front end). It's in the Fedora repo.

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Monday 20 February 2012 09:10:50 Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/20/2012 09:03 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to
> > mp3. (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> Giving a cursory glance would seem to indicate this can easily be done
> on the command line using a combination of  oggdec and lame.

I second this approach. It is easily scriptable, and both oggdec and lame are 
readily available and easy to work with.

Note, though, that conversion between ogg and mp3 will drastically deteriorate 
the audio quality of the recording. It would be much better to find the master 
recording (the source wav file or the audio cd) and convert it directly to mp3.

Of course, the deterioration of signal ultimately depends on the quality of 
the playback device. :-)

Also, isn't it possible to install an ogg codec into Android somehow? I am 
pretty ignorant about the whole Android technology, but I understand it is 
basically a Linux-kernel-based OS, so...

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:03:16 +0000
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)

mplayer and mencoder and do anything, but you need to sort through
the 187 factorial combination of options :-). They are available
in the rpmfusion repos.

The audacity version from rpmfusion is probably a simpler way.
You can load the .ogg file and export it as an mp3 and most of
the defaults will be reasonable.

[Richard Shaw]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.

I think you're missing the easiest method... If you put a file called
".is_audio_player" on the root of your SD card with the right info in
it[1] and Banshee will automatically convert files when you add them
to you phone. I'm surprised about ogg though. My android 2.2 phone has
no problems with ogg files.

[1] http://act1v8.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/make-banshee-recognize-your-mass-stor...

Richard

[Andrew McNabb]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 01:03:16AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.

I've had good luck with Oggify:

http://scottr.org/oggify/

It's handy for converting a tree of files between different formats.

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[Michael Cronenworth]

On 02/19/2012 07:03 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)

Huh? According to Google[1], Android supports Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) decoding.

[1] http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html#core

[NoSpaze]

On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 01:03 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)

FILENAME=~/mp3/Paradoxes/NeverSayNever.ogg
ffmpeg -i $FILENAME -ab 128 ${FILENAME/.ogg/.mp3}

However, converting to any lossy format causes the audio to lose quality
each time a compression is made (that means wav->ogg loses something;
ogg->mp3 loses even more).

Greets.

[Alan Cox]

> Also, isn't it possible to install an ogg codec into Android somehow?

Most vaguely modern Android devices support ogg playback (not record) as a
standard part of mediaplayer. Android 3.1 also supports flac

Alan

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Alan Cox  wrote:
> > Also, isn't it possible to install an ogg codec into Android somehow?
>
> Most vaguely modern Android devices support ogg playback (not record) as a
> standard part of mediaplayer. Android 3.1 also supports flac
> Alan
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What phone do you have?? It sounds very odd that an Android device would
not have native support for ogg..

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:03:16 +0000, TM (Timothy) wrote:
> I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg music format to mp3.
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> I read of a program "sneetchalizer", which apparently is a ruby script,
> http://badcomputer.org/unix/code/sneetchalizer/,
> but despite innumerable clues I've been unable to find the program itself.
>
> If anyone knows where I can find this program,
> or any program to convert Ogg audio files to mp3,
> I would be very grateful.

Is "KDE" a strict requirement?

Else you could install package "audio-convert-mod", which is a GUI
frontend for many command-line audio converters. It is written in
Python and uses pygtk2 for its graphical interface.

[Timothy Murphy]

Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 02/19/2012 07:03 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
>
> Huh? According to Google[1], Android supports Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) decoding.
>
> [1] http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html#core

I think it may depend on the version of Android;
my phone (a newly acquired Samsung Galaxy S2) is running Android 2.3.3 .
Ogg files were not seen in the standard Applications=>Music window.
But I'll try again, to see if I made a mistake over this.

[Timothy Murphy]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > I'm looking for a Fedora/KDE application to convert ogg
> > music format to mp3.
> > (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)
> A script called ogg2mp3 in Linux Questions may help:
>
> http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/.ogg_to_.mp3
>
> Cut and paste it and save as ogg2mp3 in any directory where the ogg files
> are at or whereever you want it, then $ chmod +x ogg2mp3
> then run it like the suggestion
>
> find /path -name *.ogg -exec ogg2mp3 {} ;

Thanks very much for this, and all the other (many) responses.

This was the first I received (by email) and I found it worked perfectly.

Actually, the loss of quality often mentioned was not noticeable
in my case, as the files I was converting were actually speech
rather than music.
I can't tell the difference (on my laptop) between the original .ogg files
and the translation into mp3.
(On the other hand I am not very sensitive to this kind of thing.)
As far as I can see, the script above converts first to WAV and then to mp3.

[Alan Evans]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Timothy Murphy  wrote:
> (My Android phone does not accept .ogg files.)

FWIW, every one of the several media players on my Android phone play
.ogg files. Not sure what's up with your phone...

[Lee]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:19:46AM +0100, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Alan Cox  wrote:
> > > Also, isn't it possible to install an ogg codec into Android somehow?
> >
> > Most vaguely modern Android devices support ogg playback (not record) as a
> > standard part of mediaplayer. Android 3.1 also supports flac
> > Alan
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> What phone do you have?? It sounds very odd that an Android device would
> not have native support for ogg..

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's a 'contract' phone; AT&T, for
instance is known for 'customizing' android by crippling certain of it's
features.

Terry

[James Wilkinson]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I think it may depend on the version of Android;
> my phone (a newly acquired Samsung Galaxy S2) is running Android 2.3.3 .

This phone is probably supported by the CyanogenMod rebuild of Android:
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/devices/samsung-galaxy-s2
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_S_II:_FAQ

If your precise model is supported by CyanogenMod, *and* if your telco
has modified Android enough to disable Ogg support, I’d strongly
recommend working out what other abominations have been wreaked upon
that poor phone. Both you and the phone might be much happier with more
open firmware.

On the phone, that is.

James.