{"id":62,"date":"2005-10-01T22:58:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-02T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/01\/converting-ogg-to-mp3-en-masse-win32\/"},"modified":"2005-10-01T22:58:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-02T03:58:48","slug":"converting-ogg-to-mp3-en-masse-win32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/10\/01\/converting-ogg-to-mp3-en-masse-win32\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting OGG to Mp3 en masse (Win32)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a564'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/svn.xiph.org\/websites\/xiph.org\/ogg-vorbis.gif\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-sop.inria.fr\/meije\/personnel\/Images\/right-arrow.gif\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biketalkradio.com\/show\/graph\/icon_mp3.gif\"><br \/>\n <br \/>\n As much as I find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorbis.com\/\">Ogg Vorbis<\/a> codec<br \/>\n very cool for its lack of any encumbering by patents, copyrights, or<br \/>\n other IP minefields the practicality of using it as a standard format<br \/>\n across multiple systems has been impractical for me (need to load<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.illadvised.com\/~jordy\/\">Ogg Vorbis plugin<\/a> into<br \/>\n all instances of iTunes I use, my mp3 player(s)<br \/>\n don&#8217;t support <a>Ogg Vorbis<\/a>, etc. etc).\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Luckily, my ears are quite insensitive to lossy audio formats so the whole<br \/>\n argument on audio fidelity falls on deaf ears for me.<br \/>\n So, I usually convert everything to mp3 and let it stand.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Anyways this creates the problem of converting [Format X] -&gt; Mp3 so<br \/>\n I&#8217;m always looking for tools.  With UNIX it&#8217;s rather easy.  Find a CLI<br \/>\n utility and write a shell script to automate the process.  However on<br \/>\n Windows I want a GUI.  After a bit of searching I found that<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cdexos.sourceforge.net\">CDex<\/a> is an excellent<br \/>\n freeware utility that can convert Oggs to Mp3 en masse.  I just<br \/>\n tried it out and it worked as well as I hoped.  The ID tags unfortunately<br \/>\n didn&#8217;t seem to get translated unfortunately.  Either way kudos to<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cdexos.sourceforge.net\">CDex<\/a>!\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I find the Ogg Vorbis codec very cool for its lack of any encumbering by patents, copyrights, or other IP minefields the practicality of using it as a standard format across multiple systems has been impractical for me (need to load Ogg Vorbis plugin into all instances of iTunes I use, my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}