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How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Hello, I'm a relative newbie to the ogg vorbis world and I have a couple of questions.

First of all, I've got the Rio Volt SP100 (aka Iriver IMP100) and it doesn't support ogg as of yet. What's the best way to convert my ogg files to mp3 so they play in my Volt?

Secondly, what's the best (or better) ogg player out there? I've heard that the winamp plugin sucks, quality-wise.

Cheers!

How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Reply #1 –
The best way for you to go is to use PP's vorbis plugin for Winamp 2. It is new, fully rewritten and the best decoder out there. Use it for playback, or decoding to wave.

john33

How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Reply #3 –
I use musicjukebox,
it can automatically convert and resample when copying files to portable devices for cds.

It works great for my NEX II Compactflash player, since it doesn't support ogg yet, Mediajukebox automatically converts the files to 128 mp3 or 64 wma or whatever i want before moving them to the card.

http://www.mediajukebox.com

Veken

How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Reply #4 –
I actually like winamp best as a player.  I just use it to play files, though it can convert them.  If I wanted to do everything through my player, I'd use media jukebox.  But to use the convert file function, you need to buy the special paid version of media jukebox.  Anyway, here's what I'd advise:

use winamp to decode your ogg files to wav files.  Put your ogg files that you want to decode in your playlist, just as if you were going to play them.  Now go to "preferences" (either right-click on Winamp's top bar and choose "options" and then "preferences" or just type ctrl-P).  Once in the Preferences dialog box, go to output.  Then double click on "Nullsoft Disk Writer plugin" and then just click ok on the box which comes up.  Winamp is now set to write wav files instead of playing them.  Click play and winamp will decode the ogg (or whatever other file types you have in there, except wma) to wav.  Then encode those wav files to mp3's using whatever utility you're most comfortable with.  Finally, go back to winamp's preferences box and double-click on the Direct Sound Plugin to switch back so it will play files and not decode them to wav.

But that's pretty screwy.  I'd recommend that you use dBpowerAMP, which is a free program used to convert between one file format and another.  Works with mp3, ogg, wma, wav and others.  Get it at http://www.dbpoweramp.com/.  It'll be a lot quicker than decoding using winamp and encoding using some other program (such as dBpowerAMP), and less work on your part.

Final option is if someone has made a program specifically for transcoding ogg files to mp3.  Speek has done this (I think) for transcoding mpc to mp3, but his setup won't work with oggs because there's no command-line decoder (just the dll).

Hopefully this is helpful.  I'd recommend that you use Exact Audio Copy - www.exactaudiocopy.de - or CDex - www.cdex.n3.net - for ripping from cd's.  I've found Media Jukebox to have some problems that these don't.
God kills a kitten every time you encode with CBR 320

How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Reply #5 –
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Originally posted by timcupery
Final option is if someone has made a program specifically for transcoding ogg files to mp3.  Speek has done this (I think) for transcoding mpc to mp3, but his setup won't work with oggs because there's no command-line decoder (just the dll).


Are you referring to the MPC2MP3 utility?  If so, that was me, not Speek .  Anyways, if enough people want an OGG->MP3 converter I can probably add DLL support into the MPC->MP3 transcoder and make it a general transcoder...

Nick

How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Reply #6 –
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Originally posted by john33
The best way for you to go is to use PP's vorbis plugin for Winamp 2. It is new, fully rewritten and the best decoder out there. Use it for playback, or decoding to wave.


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Originally posted by timcupery
But that [using winamp's disk writer plugin] is pretty screwy. I'd recommend that you use dBpowerAMP, which is a free program used to convert between one file format and another. Works with mp3, ogg, wma, wav and others.


I just tested dBpowerAMP's decoding capability as compared with Winamp using Peter's latest vorbis decoder plugin.  Winamp decoded to wav quite a bit faster than did dBpowerAMP; it took 60& of the time.  And the decode is slightly different; I used the compare files function on CDex and EAC, and the decoded files don't match up.  This shouldn't be caused by the fact that dBpowerAMP is still using the decoder issued with rc2; I figure that explains the speed difference, but the output wav file should be the same.  So either Peter's new plugin is based on a more accurate decoder, or decoding using winamp does screwy stuff to the wav file.  And any header difference is not to blame; I could explain how I ensured that but let's just say that I did.  Anyway, not sure what to conclude on this; I couldn't visually see any diff in the decoded files when analyzing them in EAC's wav editor tool, even when zooming in to individual data points.  But some scaling differences can't be seen in that program.  For the record, the equilizer and stuff was turned off when I used winamp to decode the ogg files.
God kills a kitten every time you encode with CBR 320

How to convert .ogg to .mp3

Reply #7 –
@timcupery

So which version of the decoded file sounded better to you? I'd guess PP's does but just wanted confirmation;)