Convert ogg vorbis to mp3

[Odyssey1942]

I ripped some CD's using my lubuntu portable without noticing that it was ripping to OV. I wanted MP3.

The CD's are now in another city which I will not return to for a month or so and I want to be able to listen to the music in my car. OV doesn't work in the car radio, but MP3 does.

Can I somehow convert them to MP3 without losing all semblance of quality? And if so, how please?

TIA

[deadflowr]

I think audacity can do that.
Though that one is probably overtop for this purpose.

Another would be soundconverter, which in a gnome app.
Should work with lubuntu as well.

There probably a super simple ffmpeg command line solution which you could also try.
Again, though, I don't off the top know it/remember it.

Those are a couple I can think of off the top.

[monkeybrain20122]

ffmpeg can do that.

ffmpeg -i audiofile.ogg -acodec limpmp3lame audiofile.mp3

But why do you want to do that? You are converting a lossy format to another lossy format and ogg has better quality than mp3 anyway. I rip my cds in flac.

[vasa1]

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But why do you want to do that? You are converting a lossy format to another lossy format and ogg has better quality than mp3 anyway. ...

His car radio needs mp3 (first post).

[Odyssey1942]

The CD's are now in another city which I will not return to for a month or so and I want to be able to listen to the music in my car. OV doesn't work in the car radio, but MP3 does.

This is a "temporary" fix.

Am I missing something obvious here?

[deadflowr]

The CD's are now in another city which I will not return to for a month or so and I want to be able to listen to the music in my car. OV doesn't work in the car radio, but MP3 does.

This is a "temporary" fix.

Am I missing something obvious here?

I don't think you're missing anything.
Car stereo seems to be mp3 compatible but not ogg compatible.
If something isn't compatible to play a certain format, then it won't.

However, that said, it might be possible that even though it can't play ogg files, it might be able to play flac files.
(Maybe possible, but no guarantee)

But for what's it is worth, the above mentioned soundconverter can easily convert whole folders at once, so I'll stick with that recommendation.
(You have to go to preferences first to set formats and stuff like that, easypeasy though)

[vasa1]

...
This is a "temporary" fix.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Two suggestions have been offered: Audacity and ffmpeg. If you have a "full" install of Lubuntu (restricted extras installed), you shouldn't have a problem. Where are you getting stuck?

[andrew.46]

ffmpeg can do that.

ffmpeg -i audiofile.ogg -acodec limpmp3lame audiofile.mp3

Mind you the default bitrate is 128.0kbits/s which may or may not be appropriate...

[Christmas]

You can also do it with oggdec and lame, however converting between lossy audio files is not recommended. But anyway, you can install vorbis-tools and lame (e.g. sudo apt-get install vorbis-tools lame) and then convert them like this:

oggdec song.ogg
lame -b 128 song.wav

The first command will convert the Ogg into a resulting WAV file, and then lame will convert the WAV to MP3.

You can also use wildcards for all the Ogg files, like oggdec *.ogg. However, I think lame doesn't support wildcards (I may be wrong though). Also, replace 128 with the desired bitrate, and keep in mind the resulting MP3 files will have a bit lower quality than the Ogg ones.

[Odyssey1942]

Vasa, a very cogent question. I think maybe I haven't installed the restricted extras. How does one do that? (If I can rip to MP3 in future, I want to be able to do that.)

Thanks all for the program recommendations. Will also try Flac to see if the car radio will play that.