Hi, All!
I'm slowly getting used to LXDE; using Mint 9 LXDE and Peppermint OS, and I'm messing about a bit with Lubuntu 10.04. These are all persistent or live installs I have on USB-HDD. My cunning plan is to have a USB-HDD as both data backup and live install.
But anyway; I've figured out that some music apps, like Aqualung and LXMusic, don't play commercial sound files, such as in the .m4a format. Of course, the great majority of the sound files I have are in just that format (copied from my old iTunes library before I gave that other OS the boot).
I have been using the app OGG Convert. It works well enough to make a proper .OGG file out of an .m4a file. However, OGG Convert only lets you choose one file at a time to convert. This will therefore take me a good long time, with the number of sound files I've got that I'd like to convert...
Does anyone know if there's an app out there that can let you select a list of files to convert to .OGG format. I don't expect the actual conversion time per file to be any quicker, but it would be nice to select a list of files instead of one at a time...
Thanks to anyone who may be able to help with this one!
[Solved] Mass converting of sound files to OGG format (?)
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[Solved] Mass converting of sound files to OGG format (?)
Last edited by M_Mynaardt on Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Mass converting of sound files to OGG format (?)
Someone on the Peppermint OS site told me the solution; the Python scrip thing called dir2ogg.
I've been using it to convert my m4a files to OGG files and it seems to work just fine. Of course, I didn't read the directions first (where's the fun in that, eh?) and it took me a while to figure out how to replace directories of m4a files, and their sub-directories of m4a files (if any), with OGG files.
I've been using the following with dir2ogg in the terminal:
-r is to recursively convert a directory's files and the files in its subdirectories.
-m is to convert m4a to OGG
-q10 is the maximum quality; the default is -q3.
--delete-input gets rid of the original m4a file; effectively replacing an m4a fill with an OGG file
And you can use multiple directory names; something else I missed by not reading the directions first, of course.
You can find dir2ogg at: http://jak-linux.org/projects/dir2ogg/
Hope someone else can find this helpful if they've got a collection of m4a files they want to convert to OGG files after seeing the light and changing to Linux from that other operating system!
I've been using it to convert my m4a files to OGG files and it seems to work just fine. Of course, I didn't read the directions first (where's the fun in that, eh?) and it took me a while to figure out how to replace directories of m4a files, and their sub-directories of m4a files (if any), with OGG files.
I've been using the following with dir2ogg in the terminal:
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dir2ogg -r -m -q10 --delete-input "Directory with tunes" Another_Directory
-m is to convert m4a to OGG
-q10 is the maximum quality; the default is -q3.
--delete-input gets rid of the original m4a file; effectively replacing an m4a fill with an OGG file
And you can use multiple directory names; something else I missed by not reading the directions first, of course.
You can find dir2ogg at: http://jak-linux.org/projects/dir2ogg/
Hope someone else can find this helpful if they've got a collection of m4a files they want to convert to OGG files after seeing the light and changing to Linux from that other operating system!
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LXDE is your computer's Friend!
Always trust LXDE!
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