Hi there,

First of all, thanks for info. I would like to post what worked on my debian (testing) box:
1. apt-get install mpg321 vorbis-tools (If you don't have them on your machine)
Note: If you get error, check that you have contrib and non-free depositories in your sources list

2.Code: mpg321 input.mp3 -w raw && oggenc raw -o output.ogg
Note: raw is just a file name, it could be anything you want...

Regards,

Dragan

Thank you for the information.But I don't feel any diffrence in quality in convering mp3 to ogg

Thanks a lot for the erudite work on this--it was relatively easy to implemement, especially for Linux. I noticed that the bitrate typically declines only to about 110-120 kbps from 128 kbps with this conversion, instead of big loss to about 64 kbps. It would be nice if someone would write an automated task for this process for an album (folder) or even a whole collection. Currently, I use a text file with a line for each mpg command for each song in a folder--a sort of template that I select all/copy/paste into the terminal window and punch "Enter." I like oggs because of quality compression and Noatun. I do archive the original source mp3s (from e-music) on both CD and DVD (I'm not totally insane).... I also archive the oggs (and, now the templates) similarly (I really hate re-doing stuff). Thanks a lot!

Hi,
This works nicely for me.

For those running Fedora Core 5+ GNU/Linux, mpg321 is available from the Livna repository. Depending on your setup:
$ yum --enablerepo=livna install mpg321

Yo!
in reply to gbmorrison
i was here searching the same thing, and catch this:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/dirogg/
About:
dirogg is a script to migrate your entire music collection to the Ogg Vorbis format. It's a recursive script, meaning that you run it from the top level of your music directories, and it will automatically recurse and convert all MP3 files to Ogg.

mp3 to ogg is VERY useful for Icecast, info saved me from buying more asprin

Thanks, I needed to do this. I have a box that can't play MP3s, and it's a huge headache to get MP3 support running as my box is never connected to the net! Btw, I didn't notice any differences in 'quality'.

Converting a compressed format to another compressed format will improve the quality of the sound. The extra quality comes when you encode your new sound in OGG format.

you can't increase the quality by applying another form of compression. There will be a slight loss of quality, but if you can't tell, I guess it doesn't matter.

I used dirogg in Fedora 7 to batch convert a multitude of MP3's to OGG. Worked just great.

i am trying to use icecast. so had to convert my existing mp3 tracks to ogg. used mp32ogg command line script. needs mpg123, oggenc. 'hope this info useful.

yet another way to convert:
http://blog.linuxconfig.org/convert-from-mp3-to-ogg-and-from-ogg-to-mp3-format-with-soundconvert/

I use mp32ogg and it works great. That script can convert a whole directory tree recursively and it will also transfer the meta information (artist, album, track, song title, etc). It is easy to use and has other nice features. Details here: http://blog.goodcamel.com/?p=3

"it's never a good idea to convert a lossy format to another lossy format"

OGG is not a lossy format.
It can be lossy or lossless, depends what codec you use.
It's lossy with Vorbis but lossless if you use FLAC.

Hi!!!
Thanks for the info. Difinitely a must have for a newbee in opensourse.
More Power!!!

helpful command. thx.

Brilliant, appreciated.

try http://www.oggconvert.com

online tool, nothing to download

as long as it's just an mp3... works pretty well

#! /bin/bash

echo "this script converts all *.mp3 in current directory to new directory 'mp3_outOGG'"

mkdir mp3_outOGG
for i in *.mp3; do
mv "$i" `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`
echo $i


#lame -m s -h -b 160 $i -o mp3_outOGG/$i
#mpg321 $i -w raw && oggenc raw -q 7 -o mp3_outOGG/$i

mplayer $i -ao pcm:file=tmp.wav
oggenc tmp.wav -q 7 -o mp3_outOGG/$i.ogg
rm -f tmp.wav

done