OK, after reading
the article in Free Software Foundation and learning some about
Ogg in Wikipedia, you wanna switch to Ogg but find that you have hundreds of thousands of songs in mp3/wma format. How to convert that many mp3/wma files to ogg. It does take me some time to search for a nice converter which can not only do the conversion but also guarantee the quality of the output ogg files. In particular, you may need a converter which can do batch conversion. On Ubuntu, go to
Applications -> Add/Remove, search for
SoundConverter and then click
Apply Changes to install. Or from the terminal, “sudo apt-get install soundconverter” (without quotes). After the installation, start it from
Applications -> Sound & Vedio or from the terminal, “soundconverter” (without quotes). The interface is very simple and clean. Choose
Add File to convert only one file, choose
Add Folder to convert all in one folder. The output files are in ogg format. On Kubuntu, you can find a similar tool
soundKonverter. If you do not run *buntu, try to find these tools in your package repos. If you fail, go
here to get
SoundConverter,
here to get
soundKonverter.
SoundConverter does a good job in converting mp3 files, but performs poorly in converting wma files. Thus I tried to find another tool which can convert wma files to ogg files of better quality. After doing some search, I found OggConvert. You can install it in either way you do when installing SoundConverter on Ubuntu. Otherwise, you can get it here. The output file in ogg is almost of the same quality of the original wma file. But it can not do batch conversion. And it has not been updated for long.
There are some other tools or scripts but I do not try them one by one. You can find some here and here. Or you can do some search in google. If you find some other better tools, post a comment below to let me know. Thanks.
BTW, on Windows, you have another choice, MediaCoder. It’s a nice tool but I just find its interface a little bit complicated and currently it lacks tutorial or documentation.
PS:
Aha, found this article in Linux.com. Very nice.
