mp32ogg
mp32ogg is a Perl script to convert MP3 files into Ogg Vorbis format. It is able to read ID3 tags from MP3 files and correctly tag the Ogg files, as well as optionally rename them based on those tags.
| Tags | multimedia Sound/Audio Conversion |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL Artistic |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | Perl |
Recent releases
- 25 Jan 2002 07:40
Release Notes: mp32ogg now uses the more popular format for comment tagging. This release adds support for Winamp genres, and fixes the license in the output. It also now does a check to make sure the ogg isn't corrupt (at least as far as it can tell). The biggest change is the new quality-setting code in oggenc that is now used instead of the the old bitrate code.
- 02 Sep 2001 06:36
Release Notes: Special characters in filenames and in the ID3 info are now properly escaped. The perl module String::ShellQuote is now required.
- 28 Aug 2001 18:05
Release Notes: This release is under the Artistic License, tags year and genre information, and also tags oggs with a special "transcoded" tag per request of the Ogg/Vorbis team.
- 18 Aug 2001 18:47
Release Notes: A typo bug has been fixed. The artist will probably be wrong for anything converted with 0.8.
- 16 Aug 2001 16:23
Release Notes: This version was fixed to work with oggenc 1.0RC2.
Recent comments
There is an option to only convert mp3 with a bitrate more or equal than 192kbps?
Re: Quality
> Not many people will be willing to
> sacrifice their
> music for an ideal :-)
> I think moving to ogg will take a lot
> of
> re-ripping.. but it'll happen - it just
> needs more
> media attention.
>
I'm not sure I rather want oggs. The quality per size is
better, but it takes longer to seek.
Re: Quality
>
> % Does converting mp3->ogg degrage
> the
> % quality of
> % the music?
>
>
> Since converting from MP3 to Ogg is
> going to reduce the quality even
> further, could you please add a
> disclaimer to the program? Many people
> don't know this, and when I go to grab
> an Ogg file from somewhere, I don't want
> to end up with some crappy sounding
> audio file.
>
> Without the disclaimer, you're
> basically on par with Xing, releasing an
> encoding program which produces crap
> output and making the overall quality of
> what's available go completely downhill.
> I'm not ripping on your app at all, but
> uneducated users need to know that this
> WILL reduce quality.
True that this will degrade quality, but if you're
going for similar bitrates, and the MP3 is at
CD'ish quality, I doubt you'll notice a difference
(unless you're making low-bitrate Vorbis files.)
I've not used this script, but rather just done
the conversion from shell; choosing an average
bitrate of 128kbps for a Vorbis track, and
converting from a good MP3 yielded audio files
that sounded, IMHO, as good as the MP3.
Re: Quality
> Does converting mp3->ogg degrage the
> quality of
> the music?
Since converting from MP3 to Ogg is going to reduce the quality even further, could you please add a disclaimer to the program? Many people don't know this, and when I go to grab an Ogg file from somewhere, I don't want to end up with some crappy sounding audio file.
Without the disclaimer, you're basically on par with Xing, releasing an encoding program which produces crap output and making the overall quality of what's available go completely downhill. I'm not ripping on your app at all, but uneducated users need to know that this WILL reduce quality.
Re: Quality
Not many people will be willing to sacrifice their
music for an ideal :-)
I think moving to ogg will take a lot of
re-ripping.. but it'll happen - it just needs more
media attention. Specially in the windows world
(more users = more ripping = more encoding).
[no offense intended]
>
> % Does converting mp3->ogg degrage
> the
> % quality of
> % the music?
>
>
> Yes. Moving between any two lossy
> formats will
> degrade quality some. But the script
> is really
> there for the same reason gif ->
> png tools exist,
> to get it out of the patented format
> and into an
> open one ;-)
>
faceprint
26 Oct 1998 12:04
