sox is the swiss-army knife of audio format conversion. On 03/09/2012, at 11:11 AM, Tim Johnson <t...@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> * Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> [120902 13:53]: >> >> On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: >> >>> Greetings : >>> >>> I'm looking for a command line ogg to mp3 converter for osx. > >> I imagine that ffmpeg would be the best bet; it can do just about anything. > >> There's an example of converting an ogg file to mp3 with selective >> copy of some of the metadata in the ffmpeg man page. > >> The command line options are sometimes quite non-obvious. There >> are GUIs built on top of ffmpeg, such as the one at >> www.ffmpegX.com. I haven't looked at them in detail, to know >> whether any of them would (like AIX's smit does when providing a >> GUI or menu-driven way of performing administrative tasks) offer >> the option of showing the command-line equivalent for future use. >> And I don't know that any are in MacPorts. > Hi Richard : > I have received other recommendation for ffmpeg, so it is good to > hear your second and supporting opinion. > I will look into it. > FYI: I did find a perl utility call ogg2mp3. I believe you can > get it from http://gitorious.org/ogg2mp3/pages/Home, although I > was directed to a gentoo site for it. > It needs the ogg-vorbis port and it is extremely simple to work > with but doesn't seem like there is any direct control over where > the mp3 files are written. Although with a superior process > running it, that can be worked around. > > Thanks again for the tip on ffmpgeg. > > -- > Tim > tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com > http://www.akwebsoft.com > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users