Comments on: Ogg Vorbis Converters

By: Luis Follin

Luis Follin — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:30:31 +0000

Nice! Where you get this guestbook? I want the same script.. Awesome content. thankyou.

By: XL

XL — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:12:52 +0000

I’d love the opposite – a mp3 to ogg converter. My palm pilot is my “ipod” and I can fit twice the oggs as mp3s, and it doesn’t play aac/mp4a.

By: dot-paper

dot-paper — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:28:14 +0000

Hey, thanks a bunch for making these scripts, they work great. I just wanted to give a quick tip. If you have installed the vorbis-tools, lame, and sox packages using Fink it is still possible for the scripts to work. Just change /opt/local/bin/oggdec to /sw/bin/oggdec, /opt/local/bin/sox to /sw/bin/sox/, and /opt/local/bin/lame to /sw/bin/lame/. Hope that helps.

-- .paper

By: James Sumners

James Sumners — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:52:23 +0000

It has to convert them to wave before MP3. Do you have Lame installed? port install lame and it should work fine. I am willing to bet that the workflow is failing because it can't find the lame binary.

By: Rammie

Rammie — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:01:45 +0000

hey, any reason it converts my files to WAV files instead of MP3?

By: James Sumners

James Sumners — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:54:46 +0000

Thanks. It took a bit of work since I have never written any AppleScript before :) (I don't like the language based on this little exercise.)

I chose MP3 because it is much more portable. I am also not very familiar with Apple's AAC format. I did encode the MP3s as variable bitrate with a median rate of 192Kb/sec so they should be good enough. That is a helluva lot better than what you get from the iTunes music store.

By: MacGrass » Automator Plugin: Ogg Vorbis Converters

MacGrass » Automator Plugin: Ogg Vorbis Converters — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:24:56 +0000

By: manfred

manfred — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 08:38:05 +0000

well done, but why not convert in aac format? it’s smaller and better