.flac to .ogg

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 15:53, Eric wrote:

> Hi.  Anybody know of a good app for converting a bunch of .flac files to
> ogg vorbis?

FLAC is a lossless codec; you can convert it back to an exact copy of 
the original WAV file as it was before encoding to FLAC. Then you can 
use oggenc to create the ogg vorbis file. 

Here's a simple bash script that assumes the defaults are acceptable: 

    #! /bin/bash

    for i do
        flac -d $i
        oggenc -q 7 ${i%.flac}.wav
	# if you want to delete the intermediate files:
        rm $i ${i%.flac}.wav
    done

Note that this assumes sane filenames, i.e. no spaces or other 
problem characters. 

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