[Vorbis] Changing the bitrate (down) of an ogg file

[Daniel Schregenberger]

On Sam, 2005-01-08 at 13:19 +0100, madsdyd at challenge.dk wrote:
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> Could you perhaps recommend a "best" strategy for changing my ogg/vorbis 
> 256 kbps files into (say) 128 kbps files? I am capable of hacking scripts, 
> and such, I am more looking for recommendation of the best tool: does sox 
> produce good results, would you rather recommend ogg123 to wav, then 
> oggenc, perhaps something entirely different?

I'd probably use something like these two lines in a loop:

oggdec -o - old.ogg | oggenc -o new.ogg -q 0 -
vorbiscomment -R old.ogg | vorbiscomment -Rw new.ogg

-- Daniel


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