On Wednesday 05 May 2004 01:09 am, Ralph Slooten wrote: > Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 May 2004 07:40 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > > > >>If I have a bunch of ogg files encoded at 192 kbps (average), and > > > > > > > >I want> them to be at 128 kbps (average), is there a utility to do > > > >that directly> instead of converting them back to wav and > > > >re-encoding them with oggenc.> > > > > > > > >>I want to do this because my cd/mp3 player only supports > > > > > > > >96-160kbps vbr> oggs. > > > > > > > >Yes, Sox. > > > >http://sox.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > > >Sox is the ultimate swiss army knife of sound utils. > > > > You can try the simple bash script I have attached. > > Just edit it to suite your needs. The way it is now is to produce a > folder called "converted" with your re-encoded ogg's at quality 4, and > in the comment it puts in the original bitrate.
Okay Ralph, this worked like a charm. The only change I made was to add a MIN and MAX variable to use with the -m and -M switches of oggenc so I could prevent the bitrate of the tracks from drifting outside the supported range of my player. > > > You'd get much better quality if you just re-ripped/encoded. > > > > Yeah, I know and I would usually do so, but I bought a bunch of tracks > > from audiolunchbbox (great site for indie music fans BTW, Ogg and mp3 > > format, no drm) and the Oggs are Q6, and my iriver player only > > supports them at 96-160 vbr. I can either convert the mp3's at 192 > > kbps average vbr to ogg, or convert the higher quality oggs to a lower > > quality. I think it will sound better to go ogg to ogg instead of mp3 > > to ogg.-- > > /g -- /g
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