Converting MP3 to Ogg in CentOS

Question

We need to play MP3 files in jPlayer without using Flash as a fallback.

For playing these files with Firefox, I want to convert it to Ogg. Do you guys have any options/alternative for this? I tried to use dir2ogg in CentOS, but it says "no DECODER found for MP3".

Please recommend a tool for converting MP3 to Ogg in CentOS.

Answer 1

I typically use FFmpeg for this:

ffmpeg -i source.mp3 -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 8 output.ogg

Note though that you should really convert from the lossless source, not an MP3. You're losing another level of quality by using a lossy codec on a file that was already compressed with a lossy codec.

Also, given the time of the question, I assume you wanted to use Vorbis for the codec. For anyone finding this answer now, consider Opus. It will fit in your Ogg container, but has much higher quality for a given bitrate.

Answer 2

There is a fine audio/video conversion utility avconv. So are able to do:

 avconv -i file.mp3 file.ogg

Unlike sox it is able to convert also aac, and webm formats.

Answer 3

You can also try using sox:

sox input.mp3 output.ogg

That should do the trick.

P.S: sox is available through yum on CentOS.