FLAC / OGG converting to MP3

[Mark Janssen]

On 9/14/05, R.L. Reingard <reingard at hispeed.ch> wrote:
> 
> hello audio geeks
> can anyone tell me how to convert filetypes, like
> 
> FLAC to MP3
> OGG to MP3

I have the Iriver N10 (or was it H10)... it doesn't do ogg... sadly ;(
So i wrote this conversion script... it may be hell on audio quality,
but i'm encoding to low-birtate anyway, since it's only for
on-the-road-listening... i keep flac+hq-oggs on the laptop for
archiving

This script is tuned/optimized for ogg-files downloaded from
allofmp3.com so you might have to make some changes in the
file-renaming part ;)


$ cat `which ogg2iriver.sh `
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#!/bin/bash

INFILE="$1"
OUTFILE=`echo $INFILE | sed 's/.ogg$/.mp3/' | sed 's/_192_ogg_cbr_ex//'`

echo "INFILE = '$INFILE'"
echo "OUTFILE= '$OUTFILE'"

TITLE=`ogginfo "$INFILE" | grep 'title=' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
ARTIST=`ogginfo "$INFILE" | grep 'artist=' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`
ALBUM=`ogginfo "$INFILE" | grep 'album=' | awk -F= '{print $2}'`

nice oggdec -Q -o - $INFILE | nice lame -b 112 -m j - $OUTFILE
id3v2 -a "$ARTIST" -A "$ALBUM" -t "$TITLE" -c "ogg2iriver" -y 2004 $OUTFILE
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It requires oggdec, lame and id3v2... al in standard packages available

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