Mass Convert mp3/m4a/etc to Ogg

[Jeff Mitchell]

On Friday 26 October 2007, Seb Ruiz wrote:
> On 27/10/2007, Harrison Metzger <harrisonmetz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello, I've been a casual Amarok user for about a year. I have a bunch of
> > audio files in various formats which are a residue from my old windows
> > days. While my Amarok on Ubuntu can play these files fine, other
> > programs, like k3b, can't seem to burn them. Even if it could, I would
> > still like to convert my entire library to ogg. Is this possible in
> > Amarok? If not, would something like this need to be incorporated into
> > its codebase, or could a plugin be written, etc? (Does a native linux
> > program (besides using command line oggenc and mad, faad commands) even
> > exist?)
>
> You can use applications like soundKonverter to do this for you in a
> batch manner. There are also some scripts which are available which
> can allow you to do this from within Amarok itself. I'd recommend
> going with the standalone application though, it would be much more
> reliable.
>
> There are no plans to incorporate any of these sort of features into
> Amarok.

There's also transkode.  Try both, see what you like.  YMMV as always.

--Jeff