[Solved] Mass converting of sound files to OGG format (?)
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:52 am
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!
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!