How do I use oggenc with multiple files?

daba5443 · Guest

Hi.
I have searched the net not finding info that is specific enough fo me to understand and use :oops:

about this, so please hear me out before you give me a RTFM...

I want to use oggenc native. I want to be able to encode multiple songs and I want to be able to give oggenc the info from a file (using the -n option?). Now, how do i do that?
The info that I have is:

Tuna · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2002 Posts: 485 Location: Berlin

i guess that -n only defines the naming of the outcoming file.
for example you have some out.wav and you do some oggenc with the -t and -l options you define a naming with -n, so your resulting file will be called "Artist - Songanme.ogg".

if im not mistaken oggenc cant encode mutiple files at once.. write a nice little bash script that encodes all ogg files from a directory or something like that. or check out abcde - i think it had some directory processing mode that will let you encode multiple files at once.

oggenc *.wav would have been a nice option...

edit: urr.. yes well.. or do like the manual says.. oggenc 1.wav 2.wav someother.wav

daba5443 · Guest

I will start to learn Bash. Beginning now. :wink:

/Daniel

checkyoulater · n00b Joined: 01 Aug 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Toronto

Not sure if this will help, but here is how I make all my Oggs...

Extract/create the wav's any way you want. I personally use either Grip (if I am in X) or cdparanoia from the console. I prefer Grip, as you can set variables, as far as album name, artist, location, and it gets track names from freedb.org.
When that is all done, I go to the console and from the appropriate directory type oggenc -q 8.6 *.wav

This doesn't add any tags, however. To tag all my oggs and mp3's, I use Easytag, which can be emerged. Easytag makes it easy enough to quickly tag identical artist, album, year, etc, fields. All you really need to type in multiple times is the track name.

Then, just delete the wav files.

Too many steps? Perhaps, but it has been working well for me so far. As far as the oggenc -q 8.6, it just sounds good to me. A good tradeoff of file size, and quality. I can' really notice the difference between 8.6 and 10, but I sure do notice the difference in filesizes.

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paul138 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Ottawa, ON

It's not quite what you want but you can make a small small script to encode them like so:

daba5443 · Guest

Thx. Wonderful. Now I am happy :-)

/D

kode54 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 42

oggenc can encode multiple files at once. You need to specify the tags for each input file before the path/name for each particular file.

oggenc -l x -t x -N x -a x file.wav -l x -t x -N x -a x file2.wav

You only need to specify the naming template (-n) once, or you can choose to provide one fixed output pathname (-o) for each input file, any input files without a matching output name will use the template.

I once encoded all 41 audio tracks from a game CD on a single command line using oggenc. Even though it was beta3, I don't really feel like reencoding the whole lot just yet. Probably doesn't make a difference, but it was the win32 port, running under Windows 2000 Professional. I doubt you could fill most of an 80x25 text window with a single command line under Windows 9x/ME.

paul138 · Guru Joined: 09 Aug 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Ottawa, ON

See, I knew there would be a better way ;-)

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