mass conversion

[jocycliff]

Late last year I spent a couple of weeks ripping all my cd's to my harddrive in ogg format. Great idea at the time till I recieved an Ipod as a present. So my question is does anyone know an easy way of converting all my ogg files to mp3 besides ripping all the cds over again or going folder by folder and converting the files. I used cdex to rip the cds originally.

Thanks for any help.

 

[Jeff7]

Check into CDex. It is quite good at mass conversions of either WAV or MP3 (bitrate conversion); the Features page says it supports OGG files too.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Going from one lossy format (ogg) to another (mp3) is going to make them sound worse.

 

[drag]

It would be not so bad sometimes. For instance if you go from ~256kb ogg to 128kbit mp3 it wouldn't sound as bad as it would if you went from ~128kbit ogg to 128kbit mp3, I suppose.

Plus you don't have to get rid of ogg nesicarrially. Making smaller mp3s for your device then deleting them and then play ogg on your computer. Although I prefer flac to ogg when it comes to archiving stuff. Lossless you see. I just convert on the fly if I want it for a mobile device, (which I don't have unless you count the laptop.)

To bad ipod doesn't have decent ogg support.. oh well.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Going from one lossy format (ogg) to another (mp3) is going to make them sound worse.

 

[Armitage]

I did something similar ... ripped my whole collection to high bitrate ogg. There is a program for linux called ogg2mp3. I then wrote a script around this program to create a high bitrate mp3, and a low bitrate mp3 (to cram alot on a 128MB iRiver player). So now I have great ogg rips when I play from the PC (and eventually tie it into a home theatre system), and decent mp3 for other stuff that doesn't support ogg.

I think the high bitrate mp3 produced by this process sound good, but then, I'm no audiophile and don't have great equipment.