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

[madsdyd at challenge.dk]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005, Daniel Schregenberger wrote:

> On Sam, 2005-01-08 at 13:19 +0100, madsdyd at challenge.dk wrote:
> [...]
> > 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

Thanks a bunch.

Mads

P.S. And for the record, I am on a Linux machine :-)

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