After a traumatic experience that left me without internet for days and having to deal with around 10 malware, I now turn to TL for help.

Basically, I dled a bunch of doujin music but they're in .ogg format, which means I can't play them on my ipod touch without further hacking it. So, anyone has a good, free, safe .ogg to .mp3 converter?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: Weird, I couldn't post this blog when I had a [R] tag in the title. Weiiiiirdddddd.

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

January 31 2010 15:06 GMT

http://www.blazemp.com/convert_ogg_to_mp3.htm
I don't use it myself (I use OS X), but I remember hearing good things about Blaze Media Pro. However, it's a 15 day trial so unless you can get a full version otherwise *ahem*... I guess you'll have to wait.
~~And hooray for palindromic post count.~~

I just found this. I don't know if it works well or not, but I can't really tell the difference in audio quality past ~192kbps. Would be able to tell you if it's better than others, other than based on UI and capabilities.
http://xrecode.com/

samachking

Bahrain4949 Posts

January 31 2010 15:09 GMT

I think foobar should do it. I never tried converting stuff on foobar but it has the capability, and I dont think you need anything high end.

konadora

Singapore66364 Posts

January 31 2010 15:21 GMT

On February 01 2010 00:09 samachking wrote:
I think foobar should do it. I never tried converting stuff on foobar but it has the capability, and I dont think you need anything high end.

thanks, this works perfectly!

Chef

10810 Posts

January 31 2010 15:33 GMT

Pretty much all encoders will do it, but it's a really bad idea. lossy to lossy compression will create artifacts and is just generally not recommended.

But yeah... foobar is great for audio, and mediacoder is an all-round general purpose audio and video converter if you ever need one.

ProoM

Lithuania1741 Posts

January 31 2010 15:44 GMT

I remember you having 20k post thread not so long ago, now you are on 22k, that's fast ^^.

Flicky

England2674 Posts

January 31 2010 16:07 GMT

Isn't doujin hentai comics? How do they come with music?

Lyzon

United Kingdom440 Posts

January 31 2010 16:18 GMT

This is what you need. SUPER Media Convertor

100% Freeware
100% Awesome

Converts anything to anything. With full control over everything.

HeadhunteR

Argentina1258 Posts

January 31 2010 16:38 GMT

File factory is your ultimate solution look it up.. also free

HeadhunteR

Argentina1258 Posts

January 31 2010 16:39 GMT

#10

Format factory sorry

link below.

http://rapidshare.com/files/166512242/Format_Factory.rar

tube

United States1475 Posts

January 31 2010 17:14 GMT

#11

On February 01 2010 01:07 Flicky wrote:
Isn't doujin hentai comics? How do they come with music?

doujin is just a term describing the circumstances in which the works are produced, meaning that it is made by amateurs and usually not widely sold (outside comiket or doujin-selling websites) or known

cool another doujin music fan
i have ~23 gbs of it so kona if you want any recommendations, i can give you some lol

maga33

United States247 Posts

January 31 2010 17:58 GMT

#12

prob foobar i use that thing to split up flacs and stuff

R1CH

Netherlands10342 Posts

January 31 2010 18:02 GMT

#13

While you're at it, don't forget to email Apple and ask when they are supporting Ogg / Vorbis. Inexcusable these days.

Lyzon

United Kingdom440 Posts

January 31 2010 18:14 GMT

#14

Or you can get a real media player like the Cowon S9 or a sony walkman ^_^

Chef

10810 Posts

January 31 2010 19:00 GMT

#15

On February 01 2010 03:14 Lyzon wrote:
Or you can get a real media player like the Cowon S9 or a sony walkman ^_^

I have one on the way. I did a lot of research, but unfortunately it seems like you can never do enough T.T

http://www.jetaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23964

Lots of people complaining it randomly just dies when transferring files. I'm just hoping these people are just a bunch of idiots and that I will be fine with mine... Sigh... If iPod Classics supported ogg I wouldn't be worrying about this. As it is, no one has even developed an alternate firmware for iPod Classic.

tube

United States1475 Posts

January 31 2010 19:11 GMT

#16

On February 01 2010 04:00 Chef wrote:

Show nested quote +

yeah those people are a bunch of idiots
btw, you should go to the cowon s9 section on iaudiophile.net

Chef

10810 Posts

January 31 2010 19:14 GMT

#17

iaudiophile and anythingbutipod both have threads with people complaining about it. Also iaudiophile.net is kind of retarded lol...

tube

United States1475 Posts

January 31 2010 19:23 GMT

#18

On February 01 2010 04:14 Chef wrote:
iaudiophile and anythingbutipod both have threads with people complaining about it. Also iaudiophile.net is kind of retarded lol...

well they have really good skins and programs and whatnot you can use

Amarxist

United States371 Posts

January 31 2010 19:33 GMT

#19

Get a mp3 player that supports more then 2 formats imo. iPod sucks. Look at Cowon iAudio products. They support pretty much everything. You're losing a ton of sound quality when you recompress music like that. Not to mention mp3 is terrible sounding.

Amarxist

United States371 Posts

January 31 2010 19:37 GMT

#20

On February 01 2010 01:07 Flicky wrote:
Isn't doujin hentai comics? How do they come with music?

Doujin is a group of people with similar interests that create content. It could be original or based off of something. Often times it's as good as any "professional" creation with a lot of money backing it.