| Art Alexion on 24 Mar 2006 13:18:29 -0000 |
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On Thursday 23 March 2006 15:04, sean finney wrote: > hey art, > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:28:09PM -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > an iPod. It only plays .mp3 and .aac compressed formats. I would like > > to convert to one of these formats with as little loss as possible. I > > know I can use oggenc to decode to .wav and then lame to encode as .mp3, > > but I expect that that would degrade the sound significantly. > > > > I have access to a samba linked machine running iTunes (I usually use > > amaroK), and I understand that iTunes will encode to aac on the fly > > without affecting the original file, but iTunes doesn't seem to accept > > ogg files either. > > i hate to tell you this, but what itunes is doing is no different > from what you'd be doing with oggenc+lame,,only it is using > a different encoder. the resulting quality will be directly dependant > on the starting quality in the ogg minus what's done by the > second encoder. When I wrote this, I couldn't get iTunes to accept ogg files for conversion. I found a QuickTime (ergo, iTunes) ogg decoder here -> http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/. It seems to work in playing ogg files, but I haven't tried to see if they are converted on-the-fly like iTunes is supposed to do with wav files and high bitrate mp3s. > > that said, here's a script i use for going from ogg to mp3, > preserving tags and all that jazz. i'm sure google will find you > others too. Thanks. Actually, Google only found me mp3-to-ogg scripts, not the converse. I have a flac2mp3 script that I was going to try to modify, but didn't know how much more loss it would cause in the sound quality (As an aside, I've only had this iPod for about a month, and I love its size and weight, I am not impressed with the sound quality when compared to my Sony discman playing mp3 discs, so I don't know why I am so concerned about sound quality with it. I guess it is because I don't want to keep multiple copies of stuff around in different formats, so whatever I end up with after conversion, is all I will have.) > if you're interested, i also have a kde .desktop file > which adds a right-click menu option for converting to mp3. Very much so, please. I'd like to look at it to see how that is accomplished. I want to use it in conjunction with a utility I have that converts rtf documents to Palm WordSmith pdb files. > > it's not exactly well, documented, but if you can read > shell script it's not too complicated to figure > out. Thanks, Sean. -- _______________________________________ Art Alexion Arthur S. Alexion LLC PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A The attachment -- signature.asc -- is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html Key for signed PDFs available at http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/ArthurSAlexion.p7c The validation string is TTJY-ZILJ-BJJG. ________________________________________ Attachment:
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