Ogg encoding

[Paul A. Hoadley]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 10:41:52PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote:

> I found a port for mp32ogg to convert mp3 to ogg format, but is
> there a program to convert wav to ogg format?  I like the ogg
> format, but it seems to me that there will be some data loss going
> from wav to mp3 and then to ogg.

As someone else suggested, you want /usr/ports/audio/vorbis-tools.  I
wrote a brief how-to for ripping from audio CD to Ogg Vorbis:

http://logicsquad.net/freebsd/audio-rip-how-to.html

It includes automatic download of the track list, transforming the XML
received and adding the appropriate metadata to each track.  It could
be automated further---suggestions welcome.


-- 
Paul.

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