Command-line ogg to mp3 converter

[Tim Johnson]

* Richard L. Hamilton <rlhamil at smart.net> [120902 13:53]:
> 
> On Sep 2, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Greetings :
> > 
> > I'm looking for a command line ogg to mp3 converter for osx.
 
> I imagine that ffmpeg would be the best bet; it can do just about anything.  
 
> There's an example of converting an ogg file to mp3 with selective
> copy of some of the metadata in the ffmpeg man page.
 
> The command line options are sometimes quite non-obvious.  There
> are GUIs built on top of ffmpeg, such as the one at
> www.ffmpegX.com.  I haven't looked at them in detail, to know
> whether any of them would (like AIX's smit does when providing a
> GUI or menu-driven way of performing administrative tasks) offer
> the option of showing the command-line equivalent for future use.
> And I don't know that any are in MacPorts.
  Hi Richard :
  I have received other recommendation for ffmpeg, so it is good to
  hear your second and supporting opinion.
  I will look into it.
  FYI: I did find a perl utility call ogg2mp3. I believe you can
  get it from http://gitorious.org/ogg2mp3/pages/Home, although I
  was directed to a gentoo site for it.
  It needs the ogg-vorbis port and it is extremely simple to work
  with but doesn't seem like there is any direct control over where
  the mp3 files are written. Although with a superior process
  running it, that can be worked around.

  Thanks again for the tip on ffmpgeg.

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