Short one today – I was looking for a way of converting all my ripped CDs to an alternative format for portable audio use.
Here’s a useful link for doing scripted, recursive audio format conversion.
Now you can rip all those CDs to FLAC format (which is lossless, unlike lossy mp3 – CBR or VBR) and then convert the lot to mp3 for the iPod, car, etc.
Oh, and a copy of Fedora or Ubuntu would probably be handy too 😉
Of course, you could pay for a commercial alternative or even – heaven forbid – “upgrade” your iTunes for DRM-de-restricted AAC files (which are still lossy-format files anyway).
So, why bother, when a CD costs the same and has better sound quality?
Forget digital downloads, until they respect your freedom. Buy CDs!!
Or, if you are 100% sure your data will always be safe and/or don’t have a hi-fi CD player (in addition to CD/DVD-ROM drive) to justify getting physical media, investigate these forward-looking alternatives:
Enjoy!
try http://www.oggconvert.com
online software, nothing to download
works pretty well for small files or if you’re on linux or a mac and don’t have anything else to convert with
I use iDealshare VideoGo to convert WAV files to FLAC files.
I like its batch converting WAV to FLAC files and its converting WAV to FLAC with the orinial audio quality.
It also can convert WAV to Apple Lossless ALAC, M4A, OGG, MP3, AIFF, WMA, DTS, etc. or convert FLAC to WAV.
It has both Mac and Windows version.
This best OGG to MP3 converter – Avdshare Audio Converter can help to solve batch Convert OGG Audio to MP3 or Convert MP3 to OGG
Thanks for the tip.
I\’d prefer free/libre software wherever possible though 😉