vorbis

Convert mp3 to ogg (to fix bitrate)

Posted on October 22, 2007. Filed under: console, gnu, open source, sound, vorbis | Tags: amarok, bitrate, encoding, equery, gentoo, mp3, mpg321, ogg, oggenc |

I was having troubles with an album a friend gave to me in mp3 format. Amarok wasn’t figuring out the lenght of the tracks so it wasn’t scrobbling them! It was like i wasn’t listening them at all!
The solution was simple: convert it to ogg. This is how i did it: