Monday, August 6, 2007

Liberated from mp3 !

Today I converted all my mp3 files to ogg !
Ogg is an audio format which is superior to mp3 in quality and compression, and most importantly it is open.Visit http://playogg.org for more details on ogg format.

Wrote a small script for doing that :

MP3=$1
OGG=`dirname $MP3`/`basename $MP3 mp3`ogg

if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
echo "usage: mp3toogg input.mp3";
else
mpg123 -w - $MP3 | oggenc -o $OGG -
fi

though it took a whole day to convert 10 Gb of my music, I saved 2 GB of space when it was finally done.

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